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Parliamentary Constituencies (Northern Ireland) Order 2008

I thank the Minister for bringing this order before us. As he said, there is little to say once a Boundary Commission has ruled. I once tried, as a consultee, to contest a ruling when it was trying to lump a whole lot of wild countryside into an urban authority. My complaint had no effect and the said urban authority has never caught up in managing the countryside. There we are. I am concerned that we have increased the number of MPs from 12 to 18 but I do not think that is a matter for this debate—it is the way life is. We are already overgoverned and this makes us even more overgoverned. I support the order.