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HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q Of all the things that are embarrassing about the mother of Parliaments I do not think that is the one that would come top of my list. Can I ask specifically about the…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q I am grateful to Mr Robinson for appearing before the Committee. He is obviously a Unionist, and I am not, but can he see the fundamental problem that people in Scotland and…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Can I draw your attention to new clause 7, which I have tabled? I appreciate that you may not have it in front of you. That new clause seeks to initiate a bit of debate about…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q One final question if I may, which is perhaps slightly mischievous. Obviously, in the last Parliament, the Government had a very different view on how many seats there should be…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you very much, Professor Pattie and Dr Rossiter, for coming before the Committee. I have a couple of questions that I want to explore with you. You may have seen in…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Continuing the theme of geography, although I appreciate that you will not necessarily have the amendment paper in front of you, I have tabled new clause 5, which looks…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q My final question follows on from what the hon. Member for Heywood and Middleton said about the size of constituencies. You may have seen from some of the questions that I have…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q Can I ask you specifically what the Green party’s view is on the distribution of seats that will result from this Bill? It is my understanding—the Committee has been told this…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q I would like to ask a question about the situation in New Zealand. I was struck by the fact that you said the whole process takes no longer than six months and by what the hon.…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q I am very grateful to you, Mr Hughes, for your appearance before the Committee today. One of the things in which the Electoral Reform Society is interested is, essentially, the…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)On a point of order, the Bill that I am working from is the one we used for the Second Reading debate. That is not the Bill in the Committee Room. I do not know if I am the only…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q Thank you to our witnesses for their evidence thus far. Professor Curtice was probably right to say that we should focus on things in the Bill. The two major things are going…23 Jun 2020HANSARDExtension to maternity and paternity leave due to COVID-19I rise to present a petition from my constituency to extend maternity and paternity leave during the covid-19 pandemic. You will be aware, Madam Deputy Speaker, that 226,000…22 Jun 2020HANSARDReading Terrorist AttackToday is clearly a day for us to think of the families affected and to thank those officers who ran there on Saturday night, but the Home Secretary has said repeatedly that…22 Jun 2020HANSARDBBC Regional Politics CoverageI do not want to upset the consensus too much, but far be it from a Scottish nationalist to say that we are far too London-centric and the money should be going elsewhere. While…22 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you very much for coming before the Committee, Mr McCobb. As I have asked other representatives, because you guys tend to be the kind of folk who run numbers through…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (First sitting)Q It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley. I have perhaps three or four questions that I would like to ask Ms Drummond-Murray. First, most of us here are…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (First sitting)Q I also want to ask a question that I appreciate may be slightly more technical, but pretty much all of us on this Committee are probably minded that way. I understand that there…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (First sitting)Q Continuing on that theme of geography, which is obviously a challenge in rural Scotland, quite a number of us, regardless of what party we are in, were quite alarmed at the size…18 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (First sitting)Q It would be very difficult for Members to cover as well. My final question is on the idea of building constituencies not necessarily based on ward boundaries but on polling…18 Jun 2020