Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

My Lords, it is not my usual source for a wise text, but I shall begin with a quote from the Cons...

My Lords, first, I hope that I am correct in wishing the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, a happy birthd...

[Inaudible]—proposal for the implementation of reports of Boundary Commissions with what has been...

My Lords, I have great respect for the noble Lords, Lord Hayward and Lord Tyler, but I had diffic...

My Lords, the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 was the subject of the fier...

I remind noble Lords of the advisory speaking time of three minutes. We must finish at 8.30 pm to...

My Lords, one of the many privileges of being a Member of this place is having opportunities, suc...

I agree with the Minister that it would be absurd to fight the next election on boundaries that a...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, made some powerful points. Until now, the principle of const...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill so ably introduced by my noble friend, even though the 1986 Act that...

My Lords, I am not grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, for reminding noble Lords that it is...

My Lords, I was a member of the Select Committee on the Electoral Registration and Administration...

My Lords, there are many positive aspects to the Bill, but I will concentrate on a couple of poin...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for introducing this Second Reading debate. In gen...

Like many who have spoken, I welcome the Bill. The first eight clauses are probably the meat of i...

My Lords, I begin by adopting the observations made by my noble friends Lord Rennard and Lord Tyl...

My Lords, the problem with a first past the post system is that there is no such thing as a fair ...

My Lords, I welcome this Bill to address the inconsistencies in the composition of constituencies...

My Lords, I welcome to some extent the Bill before us today, as it is an improvement on the previ...

My Lords, this Bill is about the appropriate use of the various building blocks of our democracy....

My Lords, it is surely presumptuous that this unelected Chamber should determine the electoral pr...

My Lords, what a pleasure it is to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, as always, and share in th...

My Lords, the Bill effectively supersedes the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act ...

My Lords, the Bill makes provision for the number of constituencies to remain at 650. I welcome t...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill. It gives impetus to the long overdue process of revising the curren...

My Lords, I have three areas of particular concern about the Bill: first, the failure to give equ...

Having attended a number of boundary inquiries where issues of political advantage were quickly e...

My Lords, some dozen years ago I gave David Cameron a paper entitled Reducing the Cost of Politic...

My Lords, in following the noble Lord, Lord Robathan, I have to provide one correction which I sh...

My Lords, this Bill is far from a great piece of democratic reform—it does not start to tackle th...

My Lords, I am amazed to hear that the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, can do from north to south...

My Lords, the reason for introducing this Bill is to fulfil the pledge in the Conservative Party ...

My Lords, when it comes to being in this House in 2011, when reforming electoral boundaries came ...

My Lords, I am sorry, the unmute button did not work for a minute there. I want to make just a fe...

My Lords, I welcome the fact that the number of parliamentary constituencies will be kept at 650,...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill and the number remaining at 650. It is a sad reflection that the key...

My Lords, as this House debates parliamentary boundaries, it is important to come back to the fac...

My Lords, the last Conservative Party manifesto promised to make changes to parliamentary boundar...

My Lords, I welcome the continuation of the current arrangements, as I believe the reduction prop...

My Lords, I support maintaining 650 seats in the House of Commons, as opposed to 600; this will h...

My Lords, with no disrespect to my really good friends in the Liberal Democrats or to the Greens,...

I remind the noble Lord of the three-minute advisory speaking time.

I am coming to the end.

I was pleased to see that in the Commons, David Linden, an SNP MP, ...

My Lords, I very much admire two of the speeches made since the tea break—those of the noble Baro...

Could the noble Lord start winding up now, please?

I will wind up now. In the real world, these socioeconomic forces comprise the social contract. W...

My Lords, I speak as one who believes passionately in both Houses: this House for its capacity to...

My Lords, there is much to welcome in this Bill. In particular, I strongly welcome the specified ...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend the Minister on introducing the Bill so ably. I should c...

My Lords, my contribution to this debate is based on more than 41 years representing the constitu...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord True, said that this was the first Bill he was taking through the ...

My Lords, I start by congratulating my noble friend the Minister on the clear and comprehensive m...

My Lords, I have a special reason for welcoming this Bill. It puts the final nail in the coffin o...

My Lords, those on the margins are the most affected by the changes. There could be new MPs’ cons...

My Lords, I will make three points. First, I agree strongly with the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, th...

My Lords, first, I congratulate the Minister on introducing this, his first piece of legislation,...

My Lords, anyone who has spent much time in one of the hearings on boundary reviews will know tha...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend the Minister on introducing the Bill most ably. I welcom...

My Lords, I am glad that the Government have decided to maintain the number of Members in the oth...

My Lords, I cannot agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Downpatrick, but I too congratu...

My Lords, after two false starts and the current boundaries drawn on electoral data now 20 years ...

My Lords, there was much wisdom in my noble friend Lord Blencathra’s observations, but Members of...

My Lords, I reiterate what we from these Benches have said about this Bill: we welcome a number o...

My Lords, this is a welcome Bill and the noble Lord, Lord True, is to be congratulated on moving ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for what he said and I thank all noble Lords who have spoken, in...