§ Mr. MacGregorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report the figures showing the geographical size of the 20
A. 20 ENGLISH CONSTITUENCIES WITH LARGEST ELECTORATES Constituency Area (land and inland water) Percentage difference from average size of English constituency (25,266 hectares) Hectares Per cent. Newton … … … 16,339 -35 Ormskirk … … … 32,649 +29 Meriden … … … 40,932 +62 Basildon … … … 10,986 -57 Horsham and Crawley … … … 32,809 +30 Norfolk, South … … … 136,814 +442 Wirral … … … 10,760 -57 Rother Valley … … … 22,789 -10 Lichfield and Tamworth … … … 36,090 +43 Norfolk, North … … … 96,848 +283 Abingdon … … … 79,630 +215 Bromsgrove and Redditch … … … 27,402 +9 South Fylde … … … 34,440 +36 Somerset, North … … … 51,535 +104 Don Valley … … … 36,115 +43 Basingstoke … … … 78,219 +210 Brigg and Scunthorpe … … … 61,437 +143 Hertfordshire, East … … … 38,059 +51 Thurrock … … … 16,413 -35 Bury St. Edmunds … … … 116,892 +363
B. 20 ENGLISH CONSTITUENCIES WITH SMALLEST ELECTORATES Constituency Area (land and inland water) Percentage difference from average size of English constituency (25,266 hectares) Hectares Per cent. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central … … … 787 -97 Gateshead, West … … … 985 -96 Liverpool, Scotland Exchange … … … 1,232 -95 Birmingham, Ladywood … … … 1,094 -96 Manchester, Central … … … 1,511 -94 Salford, East … … 933 -96 Liverpool, Edge Hill … … … 667 -97 Holborn and St. Pancras South … … … 531 -98 Manchester, Openshaw … … … 1,540 -94 Islington, North … … … 472 -98 St. Pancras, North … … … 730 -97 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North … … … 1,034 -96 Islington, South and Finsbury … … … 487 -98 St. Marylebone … … … 595 -98 Berwick-upon-Tweed … … … 205,618 +714 Islington, Central … … … 530 -98 Battersea, North … … … 645 -97 Liverpool, Kirkdale … … … 667 -97 Vauxhall … … … 572 -98 Liverpool, Toxteth … … … 892 -96