Part of Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill – in the House of Lords at 9:15 pm on 25 January 2011.
To tell you the truth, I was not sure what I was supposed to do. I just wanted to say that I hope that we do not have to raise this issue again at Report, because I hope that the Government will bring forward more flexibility in the way that the Boundary Commission operates so that the needs of communities in places such as Cumbria can be taken more fully into account. If the Government do that and allow much more local flexibility in the rules than at present, which does not breach the principle by which we have operated in Britain since the Second World War of equal constituencies, there will be no need to press this issue again.
Amendment 79AA (to Amendment 79A) withdrawn.
Amendment 79A withdrawn.
Amendment 79B
Moved by Lord McAvoy
79B: Clause 11, page 10, leave out lines 25 to 27