Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 April 1987.
Hon. Nicholas Ridley
, Cirencester and Tewkesbury
12:00,
1 April 1987
It is the same point.
If we are agreed that there should be control of borrowing, is the Labour party saying that it would like to increase the prescribed proportion and reduce the amount that goes on allocations within a controlled total? That is the question that the Labour party must answer. If the Labour party answers it in the way suggested by the hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham), it will deprive the hon. Gentleman's Constituency of the help that it needs.
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent
