Schedule 6

Part of Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:15 pm on 24 April 2007.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of David Gauke David Gauke Conservative, South West Hertfordshire 12:15, 24 April 2007

The hon. Gentleman makes a useful point, but I have one concern with the direction in which his argument is  running. In my Constituency, for example, local primary schools advertise their fairs in conjunction with local estate agents. Throughout the village in which I live, Chorley Wood, one sees what appear to be estate agent boards that are in fact advertising fairs for local primary schools. That is quite helpful to those schools; I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would not want to suggest anything that would make such advertising more difficult.

constituency

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