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BOUNDARY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND Fifth Periodical Report Presented to Parliament pursuant to section 3(5) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 Volume 2 Appendices Cm 7032 £120.00 Four Volumes. London: The Stationery Office Not to be sold separately © Crown Copyright 2007 The text in this document (excluding the Royal Arms and departmental logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium providing that it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and the title of the document specified. Any enquiries relating to the copyright in this document should be addressed to The Licensing Division, HMSO, St Clements House, 2-16 Colegate, Norwich, NR3 1BQ. Fax: 01603 723000 or e-mail: [email protected] CONTENTS VOLUME 1 Chapter One Introduction Chapter Two General Principles Chapter Three The London Boroughs Chapter Four The Metropolitan Counties Chapter Five The Non-Metropolitan Counties Chapter Six Conclusions VOLUME 2 Page Appendices A Rules for redistribution of seats 1 B List of statutory instruments 3 C Schedule of recommendations 24 D Meeting with parliamentary political parties 137 E Newsletters 149 F Existing constituencies – the number of parliamentary electors in 2000 and 2006 155 G Recommended constituencies:- i) in alphabetical order with parliamentary electors in 2000 and 2006 170 ii) in descending order of parliamentary electors in 2000 and 2006 183 H The numbers of parliamentary electors, the theoretical entitlements, and county and borough averages in 2000 and 2006 196 I Local inquiries held during the general review 214 J Dates on which the provisional and revised recommendations were published 220 K The Commission’s Secretariat 228 L Glossary of terms 229 Index of recommended constituencies 231 VOLUME 3 Maps of the existing and recommended constituencies in the London Boroughs and the Metropolitan Counties VOLUME 4 Maps of the existing and recommended constituencies in the the Non-Metropolitan Counties and Unitary Authorities i APPENDIX A RULES FOR REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS (Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986) The Rules 1. (1) The number of constituencies in Great Britain shall not be substantially greater or less than 613. (2) – repealed by the Scotland Act 1988. (3) The number of constituencies in Wales shall not be less than 35. (4) The number of constituencies in Northern Ireland shall not be greater than 18 or less than 16, and shall be 17 unless it appears to the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland that Northern Ireland should for the time being be divided into 16 or (as the case may be) into 18 constituencies. 2. Every constituency shall return a single member. 3. There shall continue to be a constituency which shall include the whole of the City of London and the name of which shall refer to the City of London. 3A. A constituency which includes the Orkney Islands or the Shetland Islands shall not include the whole or any part of a local government area other than the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands. 4. (1) So far as is practicable having regard to rules 1 to 3A- (a) in England and Wales,- (i) no county or any part of a county shall be included in a constituency which includes the whole or part of any other county or the whole or part of a London borough, (ii) no London borough or any part of a London borough shall be included in a constituency which includes the whole or part of any other London borough, (b) in Scotland, regard shall be had to the boundaries of local authority areas, (c) in Northern Ireland, no ward shall be included partly in one constituency and partly in another. 1 (1A) In sub-paragraph (1)(a) above “county” means in relation to Wales, a preserved county (as defined by section 64 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994). (2) In sub-paragraph (1)(b) above "area” and "local authority" have the same meanings as in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. 5. The electorate of any constituency shall be as near the electoral quota as is practicable having regard to rules 1 to 4; and a Boundary Commission may depart from the strict application of rule 4 if it appears to them that a departure is desirable to avoid an excessive disparity between the electorate of any constituency and the electoral quota, or between the electorate of any constituency and that of neighbouring constituencies in the part of the United Kingdom with which they are concerned. 6. A Boundary Commission may depart from the strict application of rules 4 and 5 if special geographical considerations, including in particular the size, shape and accessibility of a constituency, appear to them to render departure desirable. General and supplementary 7. It shall not be the duty of a Boundary Commission to aim at giving full effect in all circumstances to the above rules (except rule 3A) but they shall take account, so far as they reasonably can- (a) of the inconveniences attendant on alterations of constituencies other than alterations made for the purposes of rule 4, and (b) of any local ties which would be broken by such alterations. 8. In the application of rule 5 to each part of the United Kingdom for which there is a Boundary Commission - (a) the expression “electoral quota” means a number obtained by dividing the electorate for that part of the United Kingdom by the number of constituencies in it existing on the enumeration date, (b) the expression “electorate” means- (i) in relation to a constituency, the number of persons whose names appear on the register of parliamentary electors in force on the enumeration date under the Representation of the People Acts for the constituency, (ii) in relation to the part of the United Kingdom, the aggregate electorate as defined in sub-paragraph (i) above of all the constituencies in that part (c) the expression “enumeration date” means, in relation to any report of a Boundary Commission under this Act, the date on which the notice with respect to that report is published in accordance with section 5(1) of this Act. 9. In this Schedule, a reference to a rule followed by a number is a reference to the rule set out in the correspondingly numbered paragraph of this Schedule. 2 APPENDIX B LIST OF STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS Part One Order in Council following the recommendations of the Commission in the fourth periodical report submitted on 12 April 1995. S.I. 1995 No.1626 The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1995 Part Two Orders in Council following the recommendations of the Commission in reports submitted in June 1996 (House of Commons Paper 438) and November 1998 (House of Commons Paper 1087). S.I. 1996 No.1922 The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1996 Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham, Northfield Birmingham, Selly Oak Bromsgrove Chingford and Woodford Green Epping Forest Ilford North Leyton and Wanstead Walthamstow S.I. 1998 No.3152 The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1998 Beaconsfield Carshalton and Wallington Croydon North Ealing, Acton and Shepherd’s Bush Epsom and Ewell Esher and Walton Hammersmith and Fulham Kensington and Chelsea Kingston and Surbiton Mitcham and Morden Mole Valley Regent’s Park and Kensington North Runnymede and Weybridge 3 S.I. 1998 No.3152 The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (Miscellaneous Changes) (continued) Order 1998 Spelthorne Sutton and Cheam Windsor Part Three The following Orders are those that created the new district wards (electoral divisions in the Isle of Wight) and those that created the new unitary authorities (which have county status) have also been identified. They have been taken into account in the recommendations for new Parliamentary constituencies contained in the report. THE LONDON BOROUGHS Barking and Dagenham The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Barnet The London Borough of Barnet (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Bexley The London Borough of Bexley (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Brent The London Borough of Brent (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Bromley The London Borough of Bromley (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Camden The London Borough of Camden (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Croydon The London Borough of Croydon (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Ealing The London Borough of Ealing (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 4 Enfield The London Borough of Enfield (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Greenwich The London Borough of Greenwich (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Hackney The London Borough of Hackney (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Hammersmith and Fulham The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Haringey The London Borough of Haringey (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Harrow The London Borough of Harrow (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Havering The London Borough of Havering (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Hillingdon The London Borough of Hillingdon (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Hounslow The London Borough of Hounslow (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Islington The London Borough of Islington (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Kensington and Chelsea The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Kingston upon Thames The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 5 Lambeth The London Borough of Lambeth (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Lewisham The London Borough of Lewisham (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Merton The London Borough of Merton (Electoral Changes) Order 2000 Newham The London Borough of Newham