§ Mr. David Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in the Official Report the current electorates for each parliamentary constituency in the non-metropolitan county of Hampshire; and how each compares with the mean average for an English constituency.
§ Mr. BrittanThe provisional 1980 parliamentary electorate, together with the number and percentage by which each constituency differs from the electoral quota—that is average electorate for the country—are given for each constituency in the OPCS Monitor "Electoral Statistics" (Reference EL 80/2), published on 20 May, copies of which are in the Library of the House.
The 12 parliamentary constituencies of (1) Aldershot, (2) Basingstoke, (3) East-leigh, (4) Fareham, (5) Gosport, (6) Havant and Waterloo, (7) Petersfield, (8) Portsmouth North, (9) Portsmouth South, (10) Southampton, Itchen, (11) Southampton Test and (12) Winchester lie wholly in Hampshire; the two constituencies of (1) Christchurch and Lymington and (2) New Forest lie partly in Hampshire and partly in Dorset.