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the National Assembly for Wales under the provisions of the

Government of Wales Act 2006 following a positive vote in a

referendum;

(b)	No constituency shall have an electorate more than five per cent above

or below the electoral quota for that part of the United Kingdom unless

the Boundary Commission concerned believes there to be overriding

reasons under the terms of these rules why it should;

(c)	No constituency shall have an electorate more than 15 per cent above

or below the Electoral Quota for that part of the United Kingdom;

(d)	In England no district or borough ward shall be included in more than

one constitency;

(e)	In Northern Ireland no local authority ward shall be included in more

than one constituency;

(f)	In Wales no unitary authority ward shall be included in more than one

constituency;

(g)	In Scotland regard shall be had to local authority ward boundaries;

(h)	In England the Boundary Commission should where practicable have

regard to the boundaries of counties and London Boroughs and in any

case no constituency shall include the whole or part of more than two

counties or London Boroughs;

(i)	In Wales the Boundary Commission should where practicable have

regard to the boundaries of unitary authorities and in any case no

constituency shall include the whole or part of more than two unitary

authorities;

(j)	A Boundary Commission may have regard to the size, shape and

accessibility of a constituency;

(k)	A Boundary Commission shall have regard to any local ties that may

be broken or respected by proposals that they may make and any

inconveniences attendant upon them.’.

Andrew George

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Clause  9,  page  8,  line  24,  at end insert—

‘(1A)

A Boundary Commission must ensure that constituencies are wholly within a

principal local authority area when the following support such a proposition:

(a)	The principal local authority:

(b)	All sitting Members of Parliament representing constituencies wholly or

partially within that area;

(c)	Two thirds of all civil parish and town councils or parish meetings within

that area who express an opinion;

and where the Commission is satisfied from its own soundings amongst the

electorate and the business and voluntary sectors that this preference is widely

shared.’.

Mr Andrew Turner

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Clause  9,  page  8,  leave out lines 25 to 30.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

39

Clause  9,  page  8,  line  30,  at end insert ‘The Boundary Commission for England

shall take into account counties as listed in Schedule 1 to the 1997 Lieutenancies Act in

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so far as is possible in accordance with rule 2 above.’.

Jon Trickett

36

Clause  9,  page  8,  line  30,  at end insert—

‘(2A)

A Boundary Commission must take into account estimates made for each

proposed constituency area of unregistered but eligible voters.’.

Mr Andrew Turner

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Clause  9,  page  8,  line  30,  at end insert—

‘(2A)

The Boundary Commission for England must, so far as reasonably practicable,

use parishes rather than wards or eletoral divisions as the basis for

constituencies.’.

Mr Mark Field

203

Clause  9,  page  8,  line  32,  leave out subsection (6).

Ms Harriet Harman

Mr Jack Straw

Mr Peter Hain

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Clause  9,  page  8,  leave out lines 32 to 39 and insert—

‘Whole numbers of constituencies

1C  (1)

The following shall be allocated whole numbers of constituencies by

whichever Boundary Commission is responsible for them—

(a)	Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands council areas;

(b)	Comhairle nan Eilean Siar council area;

(c)	The Isle of Anglesey county area;

(d)	The Isle of Wight county area;

(e)	The County of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly council areas;

(2)	The number of constituencies to be allocated to each area shall be determined

by dividing the electorate of the area(s) concerned by the United Kingdom

Electoral Quota and rounding to the nearest whole number. Each area must be

allocated at least one whole constituency.’.

Hywel Williams

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

Mr Jonathan Edwards

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Clause  9,  page  8,  line  38,  at end insert—

‘(c)	a constituency named Ynys Môn, comprising the area of the Cyngor Sir

Ynys Môn Isle of Anglesey County Council.’.

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Mr Andrew Turner

Mrs Eleanor Laing

Mr Graham Allen

Mr Mike Hancock

Dr Julian Lewis

Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil

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Clause  9,  page  8,  line  39,  at end insert—

‘Isle of Wight

6A  (3)

All parts of the Isle of Wight must be included in a constituency which is

wholly in the Isle of Wight.

(4)	Rule 2 does not apply to any such constituency.’.

Andrew George

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Clause  9,  page  8,  line  39,  at end insert—

‘Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

6A  (5)

All parts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly must be included in a constituency

which is wholly in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

(6)	Rule 2 does not apply in relation to any such constituency.

(7)	The electorate of any constituency in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly shall be:

(a)	no less than 95% of the Cornwall and Scilly electoral quota; and

(b)	no more than 105% of that quota.

(8)	The “ Cornwall and Scilly electoral quota” means C/E where C is the electorate

of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and E is the number of parliamentary

constituencies which the Commission has determined should be allocated to

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.’.

Susan Elan Jones

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Clause  9,  page  8,  line  39,  at end insert—

‘Wales

6A  (1)

There shall continue to be 40 constituencies in Wales.

(2)	Rule 2 does not apply in relation to Wales.

(3)	The electorate of any constituency in Wales shall be—

(a)	no less than 95 per cent. of the Wales electoral quota,

(b)	no more than 105% of that quota.

(4)	The “Wales electoral quota” means W/40

(a)	where W is the electorate of Wales.’.

Sheryll Murray

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Clause  9,  page  8,  line  39,  at end insert—

‘Cornwall

6B  (1)

All parts of Cornwall must be included in a constituency which is wholly in

Cornwall.

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(2)	Rule 2 does not apply to any such constituencies.’.

Mr Jonathan Edwards

Hywel Williams

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

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Clause  9,  page  9,  leave out lines 1 to 40.

Mr Graham Allen

Sheila Gilmore

Simon Hart

Tristram Hunt

Mrs Eleanor Laing

Sir Peter Soulsby

Mr Andrew Turner

238

Clause  9,  page  9,  leave out lines 1 to 25.

Ms Harriet Harman

Mr Jack Straw

Mr Peter Hain

133

Clause  9,  page  9,  leave out lines 26 to 40 and insert—

‘Allocation of constituencies

1D  (1)

The Adjusted UK Electoral Quota shall be calculated as follows—

The total electorate of the United Kingdom less the areas listed in Rule 1C(1),

divided by 650 minus the total number of constituencies allocated to the areas

listed in Rule 1C(1).

(2)	Each country shall then be allocated a whole number of constituencies as

follows.

(3)	The first constituency shall be allocated to the part of the United Kingdom with

the largest electorate.

(4)	The second and subsequent constituencies shall be allocated in the same way,

except that the electorate of a part of the United Kingdom to which one of more

constituencies have already been allocated is to be divided by—

                          2C+1

where C is the number of constituencies already allocated to that part.

(5)	An Electoral Quota shall then be calculated for each of the four parts by

dividing the electorate of each part by the number of seats allocated as

described in Rule 1D (3) and (4).

(6)	The total number of constituencies to be allocated to any part shall not be more

than 10 per cent. above or below the current number of constituencies. If the

number of constituencies allocated by the process described in Rule 1D(3) and

(4) exceeds that limit then additional or fewer seats shall be allocated as

appropriate suffucient to bring the allocation within 10 per cent of the current

number of seats in the part concerned.

(7)	This adjusted number of seats shall be the allocation for that part for the

purposes of Rule 1D(5).’.

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Hywel Williams

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

Mr Jonathan Edwards

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Clause  9,  page  9,  line  38,  after ‘Scotland’, insert ‘and of Wales’.

Susan Elan Jones

115

Clause  9,  page  9,  line  40,  at end insert—

‘(4A)

If the number of constituencies allocated to Wales under 8(3) is fewer than 35, an

additional allocation shall be made to Wales to ensure that it has 35

constituencies.

(4B)	Where an additional allocation is made under sub-paragraph (4A) above, sub-

paragraph (4C) shall apply in place of rule 2.

(4C)	The electorate of any constituency in Wales shall be—

(a)	no less than 95 per cent. of the Wales electoral quota

(b)	no more than 105 per cent of that quota;

the “Wales electoral quota” meaning W/P, where W is the electorate of Wales and

P is the number of constituencies allocated to Wales.’.

Martin Vickers

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Clause  9,  page  9,  line  40,  at end insert—

‘Variation in number of constituencies

8A  (8)

A Boundary Commission shall have power to recommend that the number of

constituencies in the relevant part of the United Kingdom should be greater or

smaller than the number determined in accordance with the allocation method

set out in rule 8.

(9)	The number so recommended must be no less than 98 per cent. and no more

than 102 per cent. of the number so determined.’.

Geraint Davies

Graham Stringer

Graham Jones

Ian Lucas

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Clause  9,  page  10,  line  2,  leave out from ‘persons’ to end of line 6 and insert ‘who

are estimated by the Office of National Statistics to be eligible to vote in United Kingdom

parliamentary elections, whether or not they are so registered to vote.’.

Nic Dakin

Mr Graham Allen

229

Clause  9,  page  10,  line  2,  leave out from ‘persons’ to first ‘in’ in line 5 and insert

‘aged 18 or over who are shown by the most recent census of population to reside’.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

40

Clause  9,  page  10,  line  8,  after ‘counties’, insert ‘as defined by the 1997

Lieutenancies Act’.

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Mr Graham Allen

Sheila Gilmore

Simon Hart

Tristram Hunt

Mrs Eleanor Laing

Sir Peter Soulsby

Mr Andrew Turner

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Clause  9,  page  10,  line  27,  leave out ‘United Kingdom’.

Mr Graham Allen

Sheila Gilmore

Simon Hart

Tristram Hunt

Mrs Eleanor Laing

Sir Peter Soulsby

Mr Andrew Turner

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Clause  10,  page  10,  line  38,  at end insert—

‘( )	In relation to a report under section 3(1) of the 1986 Act that a Boundary

Commission is required, by subsection (2) of section 3 of that Act as substituted

by section 8(3) of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act, to

submit before 1 October 2013—

(a)	a Boundary Commission shall make information available via their

website, and if they see fit by other means, on their proposed general

approach to the application of Schedule 2 to the 1986 Act,

(b)	representations with respect to this proposed general approach may be

made to the Commission during a specified period of eight weeks, and

(c)	the Commission shall take into consideration any such representations

duly made prior to the provisional determination of any

recommendations affecting any constituency.

( )	A Boundary Commission’s “proposed general approach” shall include but need

not be limited to—

(a)	the processes by which they intend to seek to ensure the application of

rule 2, and in the case of the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland

of rule 7, including the circumstances in which they will consider

recommending that wards, electoral areas and divisions should be

divided between two or more constituencies, and the information on

which they intend to rely in determining how to carry out such a division,

and

(b)	the extent to which they intend to take into account each of the factors

described in rule 5(1), and in the case of the Boundary Commission for

England of rule 5(2).’.

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Mr Graham Allen

Sheila Gilmore

Simon Hart

Tristram Hunt

Mrs Eleanor Laing

Sir Peter Soulsby

Mr Andrew Turner

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Clause  10,  page  10,  leave out from line 39 to line 5 on page 11, and insert—

‘( )	Where a Boundary Commission have provisionally determined to make

recommendations affecting any constituency—

(a)	they shall take such steps as they see fit to inform people in the

constituency of the effect of the proposed recommendations and that a

copy of the recommendations is open to inspection at a specified place

within the constituency,

(b)	they shall make available via their website, and if they see fit by other

means, copies of their proposed recommendations and information on

their effect, together with such information as they have on the number

of the electorate in every sub-division of every ward, electoral division

and electoral area in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, and

(c)	representations with respect to the proposed recommendations may be

made to the Commission by people whether in or outside any given

constituency during a specified period of 12 weeks, and the Commission

shall take into consideration any such representations duly made.’.

Ms Harriet Harman

Mr Jack Straw

Mr Peter Hain

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Clause  10,  page  11,  leave out lines 6 to 12 and insert—

‘(1A)

A Boundary Commission may cause a local inquiry to be held for the purposes of

a report under this Act where, on publication of a recommendation of a Boudary

Commission for the alteration of any constituency, the Commission receive any

representation objecting to the proposed recommendation from an interested

authority or from a body of electors numbering one hundred or more.

(1B)	Where a local inquiry was held in respect of the constituencies before the

publication of the notice mentioned in subsection (1) above, that subsection shall

not apply if the Commission, after considering the matters discussed at the local

inquiry, the nature of the representations received on the publication of the notice

and any other relevant circumstances, are of opinion that a further inquiry would

not be justified.

(1C)	In subsection (1A) above, “interested authority” and “elector” respectively mean,

in relation to any recommendation, a local authority whose area is wholly or

partly comprised in the constituencies affected by the recommendation, and a

parliamentary elector for any of those constiuencies.’.

The Deputy Prime Minister

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Clause  11,  page  11,  line  30,  leave out ‘Secretary of State’ and insert ‘Minister’.

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