Parliamentary Constituencies: Boundaries Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Parliamentary Constituencies: Boundaries

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock Excerpts
Tuesday 15th June 2010

(14 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord McNally Portrait Lord McNally
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I fully endorse that. I have great confidence in the independence of the Boundary Commission. I have to say, with some bitterness, that when the Boundary Commission decided to put Stockport Town Hall, Stockport market and Stockport’s major municipal buildings into Denton and Reddish in 1983 I doubted its sanity, but I am sure that the message about consistency in names and the preservation of historic names is important.

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton Portrait Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton
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Would the Minister give an assurance that the interests of the constituency in terms of geographical area covered will be given due regard by the Boundary Commission, because some constituencies could be almost half the size of Scotland? Could he also give an assurance that the Boundary Commission will be asked to have regard to those areas of dense population where everyone knows that the number of people who register is far below those entitled to vote, because those not failing to register are not necessarily spread evenly across the country?