§ Lord ALLEN of ABBEYDALEasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will discourage the publication of the percentage turn-out of voters at elections, purporting to be accurate to one place of decimals, when there is no means of knowing the precise total of those on the electoral list who could in fact have vote.
§ Lord BELSTEADThe information on which calculations about the turn-out at elections is based is freely available to the public. It would not be appropriate for the Government to attempt to influence publication of this information