Clause 26 - Regions
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill
9:15 am
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
The Minister knows perfectly well that that has nothing to do with the definition of regional boundaries. It is extraordinary that he is making such heavy weather of the boundary review process: it is surely no different from a local government or parliamentary boundary review, in which the incompatible objectives of approximate equivalence of size and the natural boundaries of communities have to be reconciled. The boundary committee and the Electoral Commission routinely act on that basis.