§ Mr. Lawsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many European Assembly seats would be allocated to each of the constituent counties listed in column 2 of Schedule 3 to the European Assembly Elections Bill if 66 seats were to be allocated to those counties according to the method of allocation described in paragraph 50 of Schedule 4 to that Bill.
§ Mr. JohnThe allocation, including Greater London as a county, would he as follows:
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County Number of Seats Cleveland … … … 1 Cumbria … … … 0 Durham … … … 1 Northumberland … … … 0 Tyne and Wear … … … 2 Humberside … … … 1 North Yorkshire … … … 1 South Yorkshire … … … 2
County No. of Seats West Yorkshire … 4 Cheshire … 1 Lancashire … 2 Greater Manchester … 5 Merseyside … 3 Hereford and Worcester … 1 Salop … 0 Staffordshire … 1 Warwickshire … 0 West Midlands … 5 Leicestershire … 1 Lincolnshire … 1 Northamptonshire … 0 Nottinghamshire … 1 Cambridgeshire … 1 Norfolk … 1 Suffolk … 1 Avon … 1 Cornwall … 0 Devon … 1 Dorset … 1 Gloucestershire … 0 Isles of Scilly … 0 Somerset … 0 Wiltshire … 0 Bedfordshire … 0 Berkshire … 1 Buckinghamshire … 0 Essex … 2 Hampshire … 2 Hertfordshire … 1 Isle of Wight … 0 Kent … 2 Oxfordshire … 1 Surrey … 1 East Sussex … 1 West Sussex … 1 Greater London … 14
§ Mr. Lawsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many European Assembly seats would be allocated to each of the English electoral regions listed in column 1 of Schedule 3 to the European assembly Elections Bill if 66 seats were to be allocated to those regions according to the method of allocation described in paragraph 50 of Schedule 4 to that Bill
§ Mr. JohnThe allocation would be as follows:
Electoral Region Number of Seats Northern England … 4 Yorkshire and Humberside … 7 North-West England … 10 West Midlands … 7 East Midlands … 5 East Anglia … 2 South-West England … 6 South-East England … 15 Greater London … 10
§ Mr. Lawsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide the latest available figures for the total electorates of the various electoral regions and constituent counties listed in Schedule 3 to the European 180W Assembly Elections Bill, and the corresponding electorates of the various boroughs comprising the electoral region of Greater London.
§ Mr. JohnThe information is as follows:
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Regional and County with Provisional 1977 electorate Northern England Cleveland … 406,447 Cumbria … 358,719 Durham … 454,433 Northumberland … 218,572 Tyne and Wear … 886,617 2,324,788 Yorkshire and Humberside Humberside … 623,160 North Yorkshire … 486,059 South Yorkshire … 969,902 West Yorkshire … 1,509,717 3,588,838 North-West England Cheshire … 654,652 Lancashire … 1,022,197 Greater Manchester … 1,954,788 Merseyside … 1,161,911 4,793,548 West Midlands Hereford and Worcester … 436,878 Salop … 256,612 Staffordshire … 725,775 Warwickshire … 337,090 West Midlands … 1,988,019 3,744,374 East Midlands Derbyshire … 668,537 Leicestershire … 611,240 Lincolnshire … 387,833 Northamptonshire … 364,561 Nottinghamshire … 718,899 2,751,070 East Anglia Cambridgeshire … 397,410 Norfolk … 503,241 Suffolk … 413,062 1,313,713 South-West England Avon … 679,525 Cornwall … 309,038 Devon … 695,747 Dorset … 445,468 Gloucestershire … 360,765 Isles of Scilly … 1,462 Somerset … 303,750 Wiltshire … 360,645 3,156,400
Region and Borough with Provisional 1977 Electorate South-East England Bedfordshire … … … 337,682 Berkshire … … … 460,726 Buckinghamshire … … … 367,962 Essex … … … 1,049,654 Hampshire … … … 1,021,220 Hertfordshire … … … 681,722 Isle of Wight … … … 89,477 Kent … … … 1,062,192 Oxfordshire … … … 371,292 Surrey … … … 742,339 East Sussex … … … 516,695 West Sussex … … … 483,064 7,184,025
Greater London Barking … 119,655 Barnet … 224,599 Bexley … 163,474 Brent … 189,319 Bromley … 228,414 Camden … 143,923 Croydon … 242,806 Ealing … 207,464 Enfield … 200,338 Greenwich … 161,778 Hackney … 141,955 Hammersmith … 107,328 Haringey … 156,772 Harrow … 152,885 Havering … 181,869 Hillingdon … 171,896 Hounslow … 149,749 Islington … 120,963 Kensington and Chelsea … 118,623 Kingston upon Thames … 105,756 Lambeth … 197,861 Lewisham … 186,167 Merton … 133,570 Newham … 176,494 Redbridge … 178,600 Richmond upon Thames … 124,160 Southwark … 176,850 Sutton … 129,954 Tower Hamlets … 111,471 Waltham Forest … 169,076 Wandsworth … 205,581 Westminster, City of (including City of London) … 149,810 … 5,229,160