asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether similar arrangements for placing the names of repatriated civilian prisoners of war on the Electoral Register are being made to those for military prisoners of war; and whether he is satisfied that adequate facilities are now available for repatriated civilians.

The arrangements for the supplementary registration of repatriated prisoners of war, as approved by Parliament, are limited to persons who are members of the Forces, and cannot be extended to repatriated civilians. Amongst the repatriated civilians it is likely that many are persons who were not ordinarily resident here before the war, and they could not as a class be treated in the same way as members of H.M. Forces.