Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill Debate

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Department: Leader of the House

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

Owen Smith Excerpts
Monday 1st November 2010

(13 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Owen Smith Portrait Owen Smith (Pontypridd) (Lab)
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Is not the point that my hon. Friend is making—and making very eloquently, I might add—that we should consider the aggregate effect of the Bill on Wales to be just as legitimate a question? We should not just compare one seat with another, but compare England with Wales.

Susan Elan Jones Portrait Susan Elan Jones
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I agree, and Government Members are showing that they have absolutely no understanding of the historic nature of Wales inside the Union.