PEOPLE have until Tuesday, April 3, to put forward comments on the review of their parliamentary constituency boundaries.
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’.
More than 22,000 written representations were received, in addition to more than 1,100 representations made at public hearings throughout the country.
The commission said it had originally intended to publish hard copies of the representations received but ‘the very high level of response to the initial proposals’ meant it had to rethink.
The number of representations involved was so large, it decided the ‘significant expenditure’ that would be involved in reproducing hard copies of them all and placing them on public deposit would not be justified and would not represent value for money.
It also argued the exercise could not have been carried out without having a detrimental effect on the timetable for completing the review or on the requirement for the next stage of the consultation to avoid times which would not be suitable including the Easter holidays or local elections.
You can make comments by emailing reviews@bcommengland.x.gsi.gov.uk.
