The Minister is right to emphasise the importance of promoting electoral registration. However, the registers for the coming parliamentary review will be based on the past year's electoral registration numbers, gathered before the important pilots that he mentioned. If the Government delayed, considered electoral registration further and put resources into it, given the profound changes that we are seeing, surely that would lead to a better result, because more people would be registered and we could support more confidently the boundaries that we are debating.
Constitutional Reform (Wales)
Proceeding contribution from
Nick Smith
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 19 May 2011.
It occurred during Adjournment debate on Constitutional Reform (Wales).
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