Constituencies: Electoral Register

(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Electoral Commission report of July 2017, Increases in the number of people on the electoral register since 2015, whether that increase will be included as a factor in boundary review proposals.


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Chris Skidmore
This question was answered on 12th September 2017

Following laws already passed by Parliament, which provided that the current Boundary Review should be based on the electoral registers from 2015, the independent and impartial Boundary Commissions are consulting on their proposals to deliver the boundary changes, and they will submit their final proposals to Parliament in autumn 2018. These reforms will ensure fair and equal representation for the voting public across the United Kingdom.

Equalising the size of constituencies in the Boundary Review will ensure everyone’s vote will carry equal weight. Without such boundary reforms, MPs could end up representing constituencies based on data that is over 20 years’ old, disregarding significant changes in demographics, house building and migration.

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