First Schedule. — (Parliamentary Constituencies.)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 26 April 1948.

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Photo of Mr James Ede Mr James Ede , South Shields 12:00, 26 April 1948

I should be perfectly willing to consider any representations that local authorities and other bodies may feel it advisable to make on this subject. My real difficulty is the fact that the Amendment proposed by the hon. Gentleman would have the effect of reducing the electorate of the Folkestone and Hythe constituency from 45,292 to 40,324; and, as he has heard me say during the clay, I cannot take into account, for the purposes of this Bill, prospective growths in electorates in various constituencies. That is a substantial reduction, and it would reduce the Folkestone and Hythe constituency—by itself a very reasonable compact constituency. It would appear to be quite wrong to reduce the electorate to 40,324 and, at the same time, increase the electorate of an adjoining constituency, which is certainly much larger, to 53,598.