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HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)No, I just cleared my throat.30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)My hon. Friend is right. It feels to me that the issue needs further consideration by the boundary commission. It is a great shame that even though it has already done an…30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)This will probably be a slightly longer speech than I would have hoped given the note that we received from the boundary commission last night. Now might be a relevant point to…30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)My right hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. Again, we can all think of constituencies, either our own or in our area, where that will be a considerable challenge for…30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)There is an old adage in the business world about doing the right thing right. Yes, the commission should do the right thing right first time, and not create re-work. I note from…30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)I am intervening only because the hon. Member referred to what I said. To be clear, what I am calling for is more rigour in the process. I do not hold with his assertion that by…30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)The right hon. Gentleman brings me straight on to my next point. It is as if he was reading my notes in advance—I am sure he was not. The Menai strait may be narrow enough to…30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 14 in the schedule, page 7, line 16, leave out “for “596” substitute “646”” and insert “leave out “596” and insert “645””.30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank the Minister and also the hon. Members for Ceredigion and for City of Chester for their kind words and support for this approach to achieve what we all want. The Minister…30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)These amendments and new clauses would effectively create an additional protected constituency of Ynys Môn comprising the area of the Isle of Anglesey County Council. The new…30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Seventh sitting)I am sure the people of Ynys Môn will listen carefully to interventions made by Labour Members, which I am not sure necessarily reflect the arguments made over many years by…30 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)There was some discussion right at the beginning about whether the Bill gives the Executive more power, but is the Minister saying that it removes the Executive from the process…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)I absolutely understand and accept the Minister’s argument, although other democratic institutions regularly review the number of their elected representatives. My local…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)I wanted to make a couple of short comments on amendments 8 and 9, and commend the hon. Member for Glasgow East—he confesses to being a “cheeky chappie”—for tabling them. The…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)My hon. Friend started to talk about the factors within the 1986 Act. I hope she might have noticed that I tabled an amendment to ask the Government whether they should be…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)It was Wilson.25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)I note from the hon. Gentleman’s CV that we share the same university background, so I hope his notes about academics do not stretch as far as the London School of Economics. That…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)On a point of order, Mr Paisley. Last Thursday, 18 June, when we were taking evidence from the Boundary Commission for England, an undertaking was given to provide evidence to the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)It wasn’t me!25 Jun 2020