HC Deb 13 February 1987 vol 110 c374W
Mr. Alex Carlile

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now issue a circular to electoral registration officers advising them that all bona fide students are entitled to a postal vote using form RPF7.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

No. We issued a circular letter to electoral registration officers on 6 February which advised them that students who cannot reasonably be expected to vote in person at a particular election because they will be away from their qualifying address will be able to apply for an absent vote at that election on the appropriate form, form RPF9. A copy of the circular (RPA 307) is in the Library.