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347117

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Constituencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will abolish the future planned limit on the number of Parliamentary constituencies at 600.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies (PVSC) Act 2011 currently provides for the number of constituencies to be reduced from 650 to 600 and the Government remains committed to equalising the size of constituencies in order to make votes of more equal value, regardless of where in the country voters live.</p><p>The Boundary Commissions are currently due to commence work on their next reviews of Parliamentary constituencies in spring 2016 in order to submit final reports by 1 October 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) is responsible for the regulation and payment of expenses, including office running costs, to Members of the House of Commons.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 264 273 291 question first answered 03/06/2015 12:01:59 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

347119

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Constituencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the requirement that the size of constituency electorates should fall within five per cent of the electoral quota, as set out in the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, Clause 1 Part 2, Section 11 (2) (1) on the representation of densely-populated urban areas.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies (PVSC) Act 2011 currently provides for the number of constituencies to be reduced from 650 to 600 and the Government remains committed to equalising the size of constituencies in order to make votes of more equal value, regardless of where in the country voters live.</p><p>The Boundary Commissions are currently due to commence work on their next reviews of Parliamentary constituencies in spring 2016 in order to submit final reports by 1 October 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) is responsible for the regulation and payment of expenses, including office running costs, to Members of the House of Commons.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 263 273 291 question first answered 03/06/2015 12:01:59 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

347128

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Constituencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether a reduction in the number of Parliamentary constituencies to 600 would be accompanied by increases to the budgets available to hon. Members for office running costs.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies (PVSC) Act 2011 currently provides for the number of constituencies to be reduced from 650 to 600 and the Government remains committed to equalising the size of constituencies in order to make votes of more equal value, regardless of where in the country voters live.</p><p>The Boundary Commissions are currently due to commence work on their next reviews of Parliamentary constituencies in spring 2016 in order to submit final reports by 1 October 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) is responsible for the regulation and payment of expenses, including office running costs, to Members of the House of Commons.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 263 264 291 question first answered 03/06/2015 12:02:00 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

347139

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Constituencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects the Boundary Commissions to begin their work on the next general review of Parliamentary constituencies; whether he expects this review to be conducted in accordance with Part 2 of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies (PVSC) Act 2011 currently provides for the number of constituencies to be reduced from 650 to 600 and the Government remains committed to equalising the size of constituencies in order to make votes of more equal value, regardless of where in the country voters live.</p><p>The Boundary Commissions are currently due to commence work on their next reviews of Parliamentary constituencies in spring 2016 in order to submit final reports by 1 October 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) is responsible for the regulation and payment of expenses, including office running costs, to Members of the House of Commons.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 263 264 273 question first answered 03/06/2015 12:02:00 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry