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House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Thursday 14 October 2010

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

 

287-358, 367-68 and 369-72

 

Committee of the whole House


 

Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

 

Mr David Davis

 

361

 

Clause  6,  page  4,  line  28,  after ‘No’, insert ‘and the number of electors casting a

 

vote in the referendum is equal to or greater than 30 per cent. of those entitled to cast such

 

a vote,’.

 

John Mann

 

362

 

Clause  9,  page  8,  line  33,  leave out ‘continue to’.

 

John Mann

 

363

 

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

 

‘(c)    

a constituency named East Retforde, comprising the historic borough of

 

East Retforde as defined by Royal Charter in 1105, with 150 freemen of

 

the town electing two members for the consituency.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Mr Peter Hain

 

364

 

Clause  9,  page  7,  leave out lines 27 and 28 and insert—

 

‘UK Electoral quota

 

1          

The UK Electoral Quota shall be defined as the total electorate of the United

 

Kingdom on the designated enumeration day divided by 650.’.


 
 

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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, continued

 
 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Mr Peter Hain

 

365

 

Clause  9,  page  7,  leave out lines 30 to 37 and insert—

 

‘2  (1)  

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.

 

      (2)  

No constituency shall have an electorate more than 10 per cent. above or below

 

the electoral quota for that part of the United Kingdom.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Mr Peter Hain

 

366

 

Clause  9,  page  8,  leave out lines 4 to 6 and insert—

 

‘(1A)    

In England, each constituency shall be wholly in one of the electoral regions

 

specified in Schedule 1 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002.

 

(1B)    

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.

 

(1C)    

The number of seats to be allocated to each area shall be determined by dividing

 

the electorate of the area or areas concerned by the United Kingdom Electoral

 

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

 

least one whole seat.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Mr Peter Hain

 

367

 

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

 

‘(2)    

 

(a)    

In England no district or borough ward shall be included in more than one

 

constituency.

 

(b)    

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

 

than one constituency.

 

(c)    

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

 

constituency.

 

(d)    

In Scotland regard shall be had to local authority ward boundaries.

 

(e)    

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.


 
 

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(f)    

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.’.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Mr Peter Hain

 

368

 

Clause  9,  page  8,  leave out line 31.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Mr Peter Hain

 

369

 

Clause  9,  page  8,  leave out lines 32 to 39.

 

Edward Miliband

 

Sadiq Khan

 

Chris Bryant

 

Mr Peter Hain

 

370

 

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

 

‘Allocation of constituencies

 

8    (1)  

The adjusted UK Electoral Quota shall then be calculated as follows:

 

The total electorate of the United Kingdom less the areas listed in Rule

 

4(1B) divided by

 

650 minus the total number of constituencies allocated to the areas listed in

 

Rule 4(1B).

 

      (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 or more

 

constituencies have already been allocated is to be divided by—equation: plus[times[num[2.0000000000000000,"2"],char[C]],num[1.0000000000000000,"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 countries by

 

dividing the electorate of each country by the number of constituencies

 

allocated as described in Rules 8(3) and 5(4).

 

      (6)  

The total number of constituencies to be allocated to any country shall not be

 

more than ten per cent. above or below the current number of constituencies.

 

If the number of constituencies allocated by the process described in Rules 8(3)

 

and 8(4) exceeds or falls below that limit then additional or fewer seats shall

 

be allocated as appropriate, sufficient to bring the allocation within ten per

 

cent. of the current number of seats in the country concerned.


 
 

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      (7)  

This adjusted number of seats shall be the allocation for that country for the

 

purposes of Rule 8(5).’.

 


 
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