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HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)I am very pleased to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley, and to speak to amendments 2 to 4 and that clauses 1 and 2 should stand part of the Bill. This gives us an…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)Reference keeps being made to the shift to 600 seats from 650. That decision was made by Parliament; it was not the result of a boundary commission review that Parliament then…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)Hon. Members are making important points about their parts of the country, which is underlining the fact that it is different in different areas. For example, the original…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Sixth sitting)On a point of order, Sir David. I apologise for interrupting the shadow Minister. Can you clarify whether you are taking clause 6 stand part as part of this group? I am a little…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)My right hon. Friend is correct that we all fight for our communities, but we should be doing so on a fair footing. The assertion of the hon. Member for City of Chester that the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)The right hon. Gentleman will, if he looks back at what I said, see that I was talking about the principles set out in that report from that organisation, which explicitly say…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)The right hon. Gentleman is advocating the current situation as if it is some utopia. Can he explain why anybody should be happy that he has a third fewer constituents than I do…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill (Fifth sitting)I am listening very carefully. As somebody who was born in the Black Country, I am astonished that anybody would ever think that it was possible to conflate those two communities.…25 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you, Dr Larner, for your evidence today. It is incredibly helpful in the Committee’s deliberations. Under these provisions there are four protected constituencies, as you…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)On a point of order, Sir David. Can I perhaps ask that Members be given priority to sit, so we can hear the evidence?23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Further to that point of order, Sir David. Actually, perhaps the Whip can make room. Thank you, Sir David. Examination of Witnesses Professor Robert Hazell and Dr Alan Renwick…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q I thank both individuals who are giving evidence this morning for doing so. It is incredibly helpful for our deliberations. I want to press them on the key point of their…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Can I ask a supplementary?23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q I was not particularly pressing on the motivations, although I note Dr Renwick’s response on that. I wanted to ask about the impact. Dr Renwick, you have talked about it being…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q Thank you very much, Sir David. I thank Mr Williams for coming to give evidence today; it is incredibly helpful to hear from a wide range of political parties. I note that in…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)On a point of order, Sir David. Could I ask for clarification on the difference between the Bills? Is it material to our discussion? Does it affect the answer we might get from…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Third sitting)Q We have had some powerful evidence that parliamentary boundaries are to a greater or lesser extent an artificial construct, although rules are put in place to try to acknowledge…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you for your evidence, Peter. If you mentioned this earlier I did not catch it, but we have been talking a lot about polling districts. Could you confirm how often, on…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q I raise this because the boundary commission talked about how difficult it would be to look at polling districts as a unit of currency, as it were, because they change so often.…23 Jun 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies bill (Fourth sitting)Q Would more investment in GIS help? Peter Stanyon: I am not sure that I am qualified to say that GIS would be the answer to that sort of situation. Better and more complete…23 Jun 2020