Mr. De la Bèreasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in connection with electoral reform, he will consider the question of local government elections, especially as regards the distinction which is now made between the qualifications for a Parliamentary and local government vote: and whether in this connection he will now introduce legislation to apply the Parliamentary qualification to all classes of elections.
§ Mr. H. MorrisonThe question whether the local government franchise should be assimilated to the Parliamentary franchise would appear to be one of the matters appropriate for consideration by the Conference presided over by Mr. Speaker, to which my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister referred in his statement of the 14th October last. There will be an opportunity for Members to express views on this matter in the proposed Debate on general questions of Electoral Reform.