Constitutional Law

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 4:36 pm on 15 January 2013.

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Photo of Eleanor Laing Eleanor Laing Conservative, Epping Forest 4:36, 15 January 2013

Does my hon. Friend agree that if the franchise were based on that used for UK Parliament elections, as he has just suggested, instead of on the local government franchise, that would also mean not only that Scots living outside Scotland would have a right to vote, but that people who are eligible to vote in UK parliamentary elections in other parts of the United Kingdom, but who were born in Scotland and can prove it, would, too?