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Government response to the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee’s Eighth Report of Session 2014-15

I am today presenting to Parliament the Government’s response to the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee’s Eighth Report of Session 2014-15: What next on the redrawing of parliamentary constituency boundaries?

The Government is grateful to the former Political and Constitutional Reform Committee for its work on this issue It is essential that the Boundary Commissions have certainty about the rules that will apply for the redistribution of UK Parliamentary constituencies for the next boundary review. The Government has no plans at this time to introduce legislation to make major changes to the boundary review framework which was set up in the last Parliament. This has necessarily informed the Government’s consideration of, and response to, the Committee’s recommendations.