HC Deb 01 June 1981 vol 5 c250W
Dr. Edmund Marshall

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why the cash limit on the expenditure of the English and Welsh Parliamentary Boundary Commissions has been increased by 122 per cent. for 1981–82 compared with 1980–81.

Mr. Mayhew

The increase in the provision made for the expenditure of the Boundary Commissions for England and Wales reflects the increased costs which these commissions estimate that they are likely to incur in the present financial year. In the case of the commission for England, this increase is due largely to the increased number of local inquiries which it intends to undertake and the fact that, unlike the inquiries held in 1980–81, almost all of these will take place outside the GLC area. The commission for Wales, which incurred very expenditure in 1980–81, hopes to publish its provisional recommendations for all parliamentary constituencies during the present financial year and to undertake a number of local inquiries into these recommendations.