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  Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill - Clause 11 - Number and distribution of seats
  
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  Following the rejection of the Lords amendment 17 (which would have protected the Isle of Wight's not sharing constituencies with the UK mainland) he majority of MPs voted to accept Government amendments (a) to (e) to the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
  
  During the debate, Mark Harper MP said that the amendments:
  
  :'...also make consequential adjustments to the formula used to apportion seats to the constituent parts of the UK and to calculate the UK electoral quota, so as to be consistent with the approach taken to the other exceptions in the Bill.'
  
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