Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 4:00 pm on 19 February 2019.
John Howell
Conservative, Henley
4:00,
19 February 2019
I thank my hon. Friend for giving way very graciously. I hope he will be pleased to know that in my Constituency we have a prison at Huntercombe that exists to house foreign national prisoners in the process of transferring them back to their own countries. That has gone down terribly well with the locals, who wanted to see those prisoners transferred back. They can go to say goodbye to them, waving as the coach takes them back to the airport. It is close to Heathrow airport, so the transfer can be made easily.
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