HC Deb 26 June 2000 vol 352 c378W
15. Mr. Curry

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he had made of the use of proportional representation at elections in the United Kingdom. [126133]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

The Government believe that an electoral system should be appropriate to the body being elected. The proportional voting systems used to elect the European Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Authority have resulted in those bodies being broadly representative of the people they serve.