§ Mr. Stan Crowtherasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will introduce measures to facilitate the validation of signatures of persons appearing as proposers, seconders or assentors on nomination papers relating to parliamentary and municipal elections.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesNo. I do not consider that the present arrangements, under which the returning officer at a parliamentary or local government election must satisfy himself as to the validity of a nomination paper, need to be supplemented in the way proposed.