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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

I am grateful for your guidance, Mr Deputy Speaker. What we are talking about is the combination of polls and the confusion that this could cause. My hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore (Huw Irranca-Davies) suggested in his intervention that combining the polls should require extra money. I completely agree with that, and was simply making the point that the Boundary Commission for Wales has already been given £1.9 million just for redrawing the boundaries, let alone for carrying out the work on the political machinery, which will be enormous. My hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) has simply made the point that those enormous costs will dwarf any prospective saving and that, in fact, there will probably be no saving at all. I will bring my comments to a close. [Hon. Members: ““More!””] Hon. Members should not encourage me, because I might end up reading the whole of the Welsh Affairs Committee report.

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Reference

517 c819 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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