division_name: Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill
motion: <p class="indent" pid="a602.5/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;So to sum up, amid lots of misleading claims and counterclaims, there is a legitimate question about the effect of the date at which registration figures were taken.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a602.5/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;But a detailed analysis of these figures and the subsequent 2 million increase in registration in the run up to the EU referendum provides the answer. The data does not support the suggestion that using the later version of the register would materially alter the distribution of seats. Instead it points to a very even distribution of the 2 million newly-registered voters between Conservative and Labour areas.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a609.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;plucked from thin air&#8212;600 simply being a neat number.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a610.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to conduct robust and effective scrutiny in order to help create conditions where the public can have justified confidence in public services/government&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a627.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;having represented three such vast constituencies over the course of nearly 30 years now, I can say that the current one is by far the most impractical. It has to be said that the other two were gigantic and posed particular problems, but there comes a point  at which geographical impracticality sets in and nobody can do the job of local parliamentary representation effectively.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2017-11-01">1 November</phrase> 2010; Vol. 517, c. 661.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a635.4/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Whichever data Parliament directs the Commission to use, there will always be a latency between the data used for a review and the boundaries that come out of a review being implemented.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a636.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a636.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 229, Noes 44.</p>