§ Mr. BarnesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 9 November to the hon. Member for Coventry, North-West (Mr. Robinson),Official Report, column 630, to which parts of the United Kingdom the shortfall figure for electoral registration refers.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe estimate relates to England and Wales. A comparison between parliamentary electorates and the corresponding population estimates in England and Wales, and in Scotland, for each year since 1981 is contained in the OPCS publication "1992 Electoral Statistics", series EL No. 19, a copy of which is in the Library.