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HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)I am listening to the points being made by the right hon. Gentleman and the right hon. Member for Basingstoke, but I am not quite clear where the consensus lies. There is an…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)With the greatest of respect to the right hon. Gentleman, he is now talking about split polling districts—he is doing my head in. My head is fried. I might just jump out the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)I am most grateful for that. That might well be the case, although the boundary review area was Cheshire as a whole. I suspect the boundary commission would not want to go over…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful for that clarity. I am less keen on formally using polling districts as building blocks—we will come to this issue when we debate a different amendment—on the basis…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)It is 6,164.25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)I think it was in 1969, when I was one year old, so my memory of the politics of the time is not, perhaps, good. Maybe there were political considerations within the Wilson…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)Yes, the Wilson Government in ’69. I ask the right hon. Lady what the difference is between political considerations at the end of the process and political considerations at the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)I agree with the hon. Gentleman about not being too prescriptive, but he cannot have it both ways. As he said previously, he also supports the 5% absolute tolerance on the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)The right hon. Gentleman is right, and that is the nature of parliamentary democracy, but it is also true that at any one point—in the past few years it has tended to be the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)The right hon. Gentleman is being generous in giving way. I am concerned about constituencies spread across more than two council areas. Two is manageable, but I do not believe…25 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economic RecoveryMy hon. Friend the shadow Secretary of State has already mentioned the severity of job losses at Bombardier, which drives a host of other supply-chain companies. What is the…24 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economic RecoveryWhat steps the Government are taking to support the recovery of the Northern Ireland economy from the effects of the covid-19 outbreak.24 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q May I first follow on from the question asked by the right hon. Member for Elmet and Rothwell about polling districts? When a local authority makes polling districts, is it…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q My own constituency of City of Chester has split wards, with some shared with Ellesmere Port and Neston and one shared with Eddisbury. What administrative difficulties or issues…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q Thank you, Sir David. I will be brief. We have talked about automaticity and the House of Commons using its political interests to reject proposals from the boundary commissions…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q Secondly and finally, you are calling for what we have termed automaticity, but you are also suggesting that there are concerns in the current set-up that need to be addressed…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q But the opposition was proved right in the end, was it not? I do not mean Her Majesty’s Opposition; rather the opposition across all parties to the previous proposals, which was…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Secondly, Wales has some centres of population but it also has areas of sparsity, and some serious geographical issues that a boundary commission review would need to take into…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q Dr Renwick and Professor Hazell, good morning. I have two quick questions. First, the two previous Boundary Commission inquiries, which were not voted on in the end, lacked…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Good afternoon, Dr Larner. I am the MP for the City of Chester, so I share a street with Wales. One side of the appropriately named Boundary Lane is England and the other is…23 Jun 2020