61. Mr. Gresham Cookeasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many constituencies are required in the area comprising Scotland, the North-East, Yorkshire, the North-West and Wales, and the area comprising the West Midlands, the East Midlands, East Anglia, the South-West and the South-East, respectively, on the basis of equality of electorates throughout; and what is the present number of constituencies in each of these two divisions of Great Britain.
§ Mr. CallaghanThe hypothetical figures asked for, based on a notional electoral quota of 58,824, are 252 and 361 respectively. The present figures are 274 and 344 respectively.