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date	18/02/2019
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Local Government: Constituencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the timetable is for the full Boundary Review of local councils.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	222690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Local Government Boundary Commission for England has no current plans to carry out a single programme of electoral reviews for all local authorities in England.</p><p>The Commission administers a rolling programme of electoral reviews and can include local authorities if they meet one or more of the following criteria:</p><ul><li>If a council has high levels of electoral inequality, where some councillors represent many more, or many fewer, voters than the average for the local authority area. The Commission targets authorities where the number of electors in 30% or more wards or divisions varies from the average of the council by 10% or more. Where one ward or division varies by 30% or more, the Commission will also consider carrying out a review. In both cases, the Commission will carry out a review if it believes the variances will not be corrected, without a review, within a reasonable period of time.</li><li>If a council has not undergone an electoral review in more than 12 years.</li><li>Where the Commission has been asked to carry out an electoral review.</li></ul><p>In the financial year 2019/20, the Commission plans to initiate electoral reviews in 25 English local authorities selected through the criteria set out above.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 20/02/2019 14:02:00 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1063763

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	County Councils: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what estimate he has made of the (a) average number of electors in a county council division and (b) percentage variance from that average in each such division.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	222698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Local Government Boundary Commission for England collects and publishes data annually on every local authority in England. Data derived from electoral registers in December 2017 show that:</p><p>(a) Given that electoral divisions in England can be represented by one or two councillors, the Commission does not collect data on the average number of voters living in them. The average number of electors per county councillor in England is 9,327.</p><p>(b) The Commission strongly believes that every English local authority is different, faces diverse challenges and represents people and communities in a variety of ways. The Commission therefore does not examine electoral division or ward data against a national average. When drawing up electoral arrangements or deciding whether to include a council in its work programme, the Commission compares the number of electors in each division with the average for the council within which it is located. The spreadsheet, which can be accessed through the following link, sets out the electoral variance of every electoral division and ward in England against the average for that local authority alongside other electorate data <a href="http://www.lgbce.org.uk/resources/electoral-data" target="_blank">http://www.lgbce.org.uk/resources/electoral-data</a>.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 20/02/2019 14:03:11 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron