House of Commons (Participation) Bill

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 9:45 am on 9 March 2007.

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Photo of Robert Walter Robert Walter Conservative, North Dorset 9:45, 9 March 2007

The hon. Gentleman has obviously repeated, albeit more eloquently, my point that that is not the way forward. The settlement between the Westminster Parliament and the then Stormont Parliament was an unsatisfactory one. That is why I am proposing something different today. The fact of the matter is that, even after boundary changes in Scotland and anticipated boundary changes in Wales, both those countries will still be slightly over-represented in this place compared with English constituencies, some of which have in excess of 100,000 electors. My own constituency now has more than 75,000 electors.