PEOPLE will be able to find out more about the review of their parliamentary constituencies from noon tomorrow (Tuesday) – but only on line.

The Boundary Commission for England says last Autumn’s consultations on its initial proposals for new Parliamentary boundaries ‘attracted a very significant and encouraging rate of response’.

Well over 22,000 written representations were received, in addition to over 1,100 representations made at public hearings throughout the country.

“Whilst our original intention was to publish in hard copy in every proposed constituency.......all the representations received in relation to that region.....the very high level of response to the initial proposals has meant that we have had to revisit that intention,” says the commission.

“As the number of representations involved is so large, we have determined that the significant expenditure that would be involved in reproducing hard copies of them all and placing the resulting large number of volumes in hundreds of places of public deposit across England could not justify a further application for additional funds, both having regard to the present pressures on public expenditure and as such expense would not represent value for money”.

It also argues the exercise could not be carried out without having a detrimental impact on the timetable for completing the review or on the requirement for the next stage of the consultation to take place at times which would not be suitable - over the Easter holidays or at times which would clash with local elections.

“We therefore consider that there are strong overriding reasons in the public interest why the representations should be published only on our website and not in hard copies across the country.” the commission adds.

People who require assistance in viewing the representations online are encouraged to use widely available public internet facilities, such as in most public libraries, where assistance with using the internet is generally available.

Anyone who is unable to access the internet at all is asked to contact the commission which says it will consider any reasonable request.

The address is:

The Boundary Commission for England

35 Great Smith Street

London

SW1P 3BQ

Telephone: 0207 276 1102

The publication of the written representations and verbatim transcripts of the public hearings will start the statutory ‘secondary consultation period’, when individuals and organisations have an opportunity to submit comments on the representations that have been made by others.

People are encouraged to make use of the site to search, browse and comment on the initial representations.

Views are needed no later than noon on Tuesday, April 3.