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748034

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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 make it his policy to use the June 2017 electoral registration figures to inform a future boundary review.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	2943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government's manifesto re-affirms the commitment to deliver equal and updated boundaries and reduce the size of the House of Commons.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Following laws already passed by Parliament that set out the date of the electoral register to be used at boundary reviews, and provide that the current Boundary Review should be based on the electoral registers from 2015, the independent and impartial Boundary Commissions are consulting on their proposals to deliver the boundary changes, and they will submit their final proposals to Parliament in autumn 2018. These reforms will ensure fair and equal representation for the voting public across the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>Equalising the size of constituencies in the Boundary Review will ensure everyone’s vote will carry equal weight. Without such boundary reforms, MPs could end up representing constituencies based on data that is over 20 years’ old, disregarding significant changes in demographics, house building and migration.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 10/07/2017 16:27:29 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

748038

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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 the Constituency Boundary Review is on track to report by 1 October 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	2734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government's manifesto re-affirms the commitment to deliver equal and updated boundaries and reduce the size of the House of Commons.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The progress of the current boundary review, which is proceeding in accordance with the laws already passed by Parliament, is a matter for the independent and impartial Boundary Commissions. Further information can be found on the websites for each of the four Boundary Commissions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 2730 question first answered 10/07/2017 16:29:28 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

748043

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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 it remains Government policy to reduce the number of parliamentary constituencies to 600.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	2730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government's manifesto re-affirms the commitment to deliver equal and updated boundaries and reduce the size of the House of Commons.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The progress of the current boundary review, which is proceeding in accordance with the laws already passed by Parliament, is a matter for the independent and impartial Boundary Commissions. Further information can be found on the websites for each of the four Boundary Commissions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 2734 question first answered 10/07/2017 16:29:28 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

747591

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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 he has plans to postpone the 2018 Boundary Commission Review.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	2630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government's manifesto re-affirms the commitment to deliver equal and updated boundaries and reduce the size of the House of Commons.</p><p> </p><p>Following laws already passed by Parliament, the independent and impartial Boundary Commissions are consulting on their proposals to deliver the boundary changes, and they will submit their final proposals to Parliament in autumn 2018. These reforms will ensure fair and equal representation for the voting public across the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>Equalising the size of constituencies in the Boundary Review will ensure everyone’s vote will carry equal weight. Without such boundary reforms, MPs could end up representing constituencies based on data that is over 20 years’ old, disregarding significant changes in demographics, house building and migration.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/07/2017 12:35:55 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

732845

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
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 the Government discussed the 2018 boundary review during recent negotiations with the Democratic Unionist Party.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	1466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The terms of the deal between the Conservative party and the DUP have been set out in the agreement.</p><p> </p><p>The Government's manifesto re-affirms the commitment to deliver equal and updated boundaries and reduce the size of the House of Commons.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 03/07/2017 14:05:27 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

732525

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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 the cost to the public purse was of the revision of constituency boundaries review undertaken in the 2015-2017 Parliament for (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) Wales.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	1222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>During the 2015-17 Parliament, each Boundary Commission spent approximately the following on the conduct of the current Boundary Review which is due to report in 2018:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>(a) Scotland - £380,000</p><p>(b) England - £2,711,000</p><p>(c) Northern Ireland - £374,000</p><p>(d) Wales - £441,000</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Sixth Periodic Review of constituency boundaries was due to report in 2013, though it was moved to 2018 following an amendment to the Electoral Registration and Administration (ERA) Act 2013. At the time that the ERA Bill received Royal Assent in January 2013, each of the four Boundary Commissions had spent approximately the following amounts:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>(a) Scotland – £680,000</p><p>(b) England – £4,867,000</p><p>(c) Northern Ireland – £698,000</p><p>(d) Wales – £819,000</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 1242 question first answered 29/06/2017 15:02:35 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

732526

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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 the cost to the public purse was of the Sixth Periodic Review of constituency boundaries undertaken in the 2010-2015 Parliament for (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) Wales.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	1242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>During the 2015-17 Parliament, each Boundary Commission spent approximately the following on the conduct of the current Boundary Review which is due to report in 2018:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>(a) Scotland - £380,000</p><p>(b) England - £2,711,000</p><p>(c) Northern Ireland - £374,000</p><p>(d) Wales - £441,000</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Sixth Periodic Review of constituency boundaries was due to report in 2013, though it was moved to 2018 following an amendment to the Electoral Registration and Administration (ERA) Act 2013. At the time that the ERA Bill received Royal Assent in January 2013, each of the four Boundary Commissions had spent approximately the following amounts:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>(a) Scotland – £680,000</p><p>(b) England – £4,867,000</p><p>(c) Northern Ireland – £698,000</p><p>(d) Wales – £819,000</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 1222 question first answered 29/06/2017 15:02:35 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown