Proceeding contribution from Meg Hillier (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 6 September 2010. It occurred during Debate on bill on Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill
Today we heard from the hon. Member for Chelsea and Fulham (Greg Hands) that the number of people on the electoral register went down after 1997; it actually went up by 2 million. At Question Time in June, the Deputy Prime Minister cited a figure for my constituency that was 18,000 short of the 72,920 people who actually voted on election day. With figures like that, can we trust anything that Government Members say when it comes to the Bill, which breaks the accountability link between voters and their MPs, who could change at every election?
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- 2010-12
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- Boundary commissions Constituency size Constituencies Alternative vote Costs House of Commons Electoral register General elections Judicial review Fixed-term parliaments Members Referendums Public inquiries Voting methods Reform
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- Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill 2010-12
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