Clause 19 - Advice of the Electoral Commission
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill
12:15 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
As the Minister well knows, fairness—in the sense of having roughly equal numbers of electors per elected member—will give rise to the consequences that he suggests only if he sticks rigidly to the quite inappropriate regional boundaries that have been drawn up for the large regions in south-east and east England, for example.