division_name: Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill
motion: <p class="indent" pid="a509.6/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;three rather mangy cows, a dachshund named &#8216;Colin&#8217;, and a small hen in its late forties.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a514.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The data does not support the suggestion that using the later version of the register&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a514.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;would materially alter the distribution of seats. Instead it points to a very even distribution of the 2 million newly-registered voters between&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a517.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;registers&#8230;published in or after 2017.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a527.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I was put in as an honour, not as a working peer. Not as lobby fodder. I&#8217;m fed up with the fact that I keep being asked now to go in and vote for things about which I don&#8217;t have knowledge.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a527.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It seems perverse to reduce the number of elected representatives in this place while the Lords continues to gorge itself on new arrivals.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-09-08">8 September</phrase> 2016; Vol. 614, c. 502.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a545.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;reduce the number of MPs to 600 to cut the cost of politics&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a547.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Reducing the number of MPs allows us to bring our oversized House of Commons into line with legislatures across the world. The House of Commons is the largest directly elected chamber in the European Union, and it&#8217;s half as big again as the US House of Representatives.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a550.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We believe that, all other things being equal, constituency electorates should be broadly equal.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a551.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if the Commission is to continue that policy for the next Review, it does mean there is very little flexibility within the timetable outlined above.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a551.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;working towards a formal launch for that Review around the end of February 2016&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a551.3/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;anticipates submitting its final report of the next Review in September 2018.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a551.3/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if changes are made to the governing legislation in the interim, that may have a consequential impact on the timetable for the next Review.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a557.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;each vote shall, as far as possible, command an equal share of representation in the House of Commons&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a562.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a562.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 257, Noes 35.</p>