Part of Parliamentary Constituencies Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 12:20 pm ar 18 Mehefin 2020.
Jane Hunt
Ceidwadwyr, Loughborough
12:20,
18 Mehefin 2020
It is a pleasure to sit before you, Mr Paisley. I have a couple of questions, Ms Williams. First, the same phrase has been used in your session and in the session before. The reference has been to having a “very tight 5% quota”, but in fact that means a 10% variance. I wonder what you think about equal vote, equal value versus a larger variance, which would mean fewer constituents in one Constituency and a much larger group in another if there were a more than 10% variance, and how those constituents would feel about thatQ .
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent