Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff in his Department have been tasked with preparing Orders in Council to implement recommendations of the Boundary Commission.

We are preparing a draft Order in Council that will give effect to the recommendations contained in the final reports of the four Boundary Commissions. I am not able to give a figure of the number of staff involved in the preparation of the Order as they work on a number of different projects at any one time.

We will lay the draft Order in Council before Parliament as soon as possible, and it will be debated and there will be a vote in both Houses in the usual way.