My Lords, I am grateful. The problem has a wider resonance than the Malvern Hills Trust, although that is important. Coterminosity of local government and parliamentary boundaries is important, as is coterminosity of local government and National Health Service boundaries and, in this case, of the integrated care boards. If the Minister has any influence in other government departments, I ask her to impress on them the significance of residents who may be split between integrated care boards, like residents where I live in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, who are now being moved into a new Wakefield parliamentary constituency. This creates more problems than we sometimes recognise. Coterminosity and looking at the local implications of the lines we draw on a map are important and ought to be done only following detailed consultation with local people.
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Pinnock
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 22 March 2023.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill.
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