HC Deb 13 July 1977 vol 935 cc178-81W
Mr. Lawson

asked 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. John

The allocation, including Greater London as a county, would he as follows:

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. Lawson

asked 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. John

The 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. Lawson

asked 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 Assembly Elections Bill, and the corresponding electorates of the various boroughs comprising the electoral region of Greater London.

Mr. John

The information is as follows:

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