Overseas British Subjects (Voting Rights)

HC Deb 19 June 1975 vol 893 cc481-2W

45. Sir John Rodgers

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will propose that the Speaker's Conference be reconvened in order to examine the voting rights of British subjects resident abroad.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister hopes shortly to initiate consultation between the leaders of the parties on the re-convening of a Speaker's Conference.