HC Deb 27 June 1969 vol 785 cc324-6W
Mr. Speed

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the constituencies proposed by the English Parliamentary Boundary Commission whose boundaries will cross the new local authority boundaries proposed by the Royal Commission on Local Government.

Mr. Callaghan

The 94 constituencies whose boundaries would cross those of the proposed 58 unitary local government areas or of the 20 metropolitan district areas comprised in the three metropolitan areas are listed below.

Following is the list:

Abingdon. Knutsford.
Barkston Ash. Leek.
Basingstoke. Lewes.
Batley and Morley. Louth.
Beaconsfield. Macclesfield.
Blyth. Manchester, Gorton.
Bodmin. Manchester, Openshaw.
Bolsover.
Bootle. Meriden.
Brentwood and Ongar Mid-Bedfordshire.
Brighouse and Spenborough. Middleton and Prestwich.
Buckingham. Mid-Sussex.
Burton. Nantwich.
Bury St. Edmunds. Newark.
Chester-le-Street. New Forest.
Chippenham. Newton.
Chorley. Normanton.
Clitheroe. North East Derbyshire.
Colne Valley.
Darwen. North Fylde.
Daventry. North West Norfolk.
Dearne Valley. Ormskirk.
Dorking. Petersfield.
Easington. Richmond (Yorks)
East Grinstead. Ripon.
Ely, Isle of. Rossendale.
Epping Forest. Runcorn.
Faversham. Rutland and Stamford.
Gainsborough.
Goole. Saffron Walden.
Halesowen and Stourbridge. Shoreham.
Skipton.
Harrogate. South East Derbyshire.
Hemel Hempstead.
Hemsworth. South Fylde.
Henley. South Hertfordshire.
Hexham. South West Staffordshire.
Heywood and Royton.
Stafford and Stone.
High Peak. Stratford-on-Avon.
Hitchin. Wakefield.
Holland with Boston. Wellingborough.
Horsham and Crawley. Wells.
Westbury.
Houghton-le-Spring. West Devon.
Howden. West Dorset.
Huntingdonshire. Westhoughton.
Huyton. Westmorland.
Ince. Weston-Super-Mare.
Kettering. Whitehaven.
Kidderminster. Widnes.

Mr. Speed

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the existing constituencies in England whose boundaries contain two, three, four and five or more first tier local authorities, respectively.

Mr. Callaghan

There is none, if by "first tier local authorities" the hon. Member means existing county and county boroughs.

Mr. Speed

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what further consultations he has had with the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England since 21st April, 1969.

Mr. Callaghan

None.

Mr. Speed

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total time taken for each review by the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England to carry out their investigations and submit them to his Department in the reviews undertaken since the passing of the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act, 1949.

Mr. Callaghan

There have been two general reviews. In the first the interval between notice of intention to commence the review and the report was 15 months and, in the second, four years and two months.

Mr. Speed

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the size of the electorates in 1969 of the proposed new constituencies of Epping, Chigwell, Sevenoaks, Reigate, East Surrey, and South-East Hertfordshire.

Mr. Callaghan

The 1969 electorates would be:—

Epping 72,701
Chigwell 52,742
Sevenoaks 77,459
Reigate 68,480
East Surrey 51,709
South East Hertfordshire 34,875