Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 January 2001.
Mr Tam Dalyell
Labour, Linlithgow
12:00,
29 January 2001
Against the background of a sad Constituency case from Linlithgow on which my hon Friend has had time to reflect, should a mother who loses her husband when she is eight weeks pregnant with a second child be entitled to full maternity allowance? Is the anomaly that that case constitutes uncommon?
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
