HC Deb 15 July 1988 vol 137 c400W
Mr. Wallace

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received regarding the choice of electoral system for the 1989 elections to the European Parliament.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

Representations have been received from two hon. Members in recent months about the electoral system to be used at the European parliamentary elections in 1989. The European Parliament has yet to agree on a uniform procedure for elections, and the electoral system used in the United Kingdom at the 1989 elections will be the same as in 1984: in Great Britain the simple majority system, and in Northern Ireland the system of a single transferable vote.