Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, If he will make an assessment of the potential constitutional implications of proposed boundary changes.

The current constituency boundaries are based on data that is already 20 years old, disregarding significant changes in demographics, house building and migration.

Up-to-date, more equally sized constituencies will make our elections fairer, ensuring that every vote counts the same, wherever it is cast across the United Kingdom. It is in everyone’s interest that our political system is fair. If we let some constituencies stay smaller than others, voters in the smaller constituencies will have more power than those in larger ones, which cannot be right.

The current Boundary Review is being undertaken by the independent and judge-led Boundary Commissions with extensive public consultation.

The principles governing the approach to boundary changes were all debated and approved by Parliament in the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020.