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Parliamentary Constituencies Bill passes Second Reading
3 June, 2020
The Parliamentary Constituencies Bill yesterday passed its Second Reading stage in the House of Commons. You can read the full Second Reading debate on the Bill here.
Parliamentary Constituencies Bill published
20 May, 2020
Following its earlier policy statement, the Government has now laid before Parliament a Parliamentary Constituencies Bill, to make provision for future constituency reviews (as well as removing the current requirement on the Government to implement the recommendations of the 2018 Review). The text of the Bill and associated documents can …
Government statement on constituency review policy
15 April, 2020
On 24 March, the Government laid a Written Ministerial Statement in Parliament, outlining their proposed approach to reviews of House of Commons constituencies, both the outstanding final report and recommendations of the four Commissions from the 2018 Review, and policy for future constituency reviews. The statement outlines the Government’s intention …
New Commissioners appointed
14 June, 2019
The Commission is pleased to welcome the appointment of two new Commissioners, Colin Byrne and Sarah Hamilton, who will both take office on 1 July, for a five-year term. Both Colin and Sarah were lead Assistant Commissioners during the 2018 Review, Colin for the South East region, and Sarah for …
New Commissioners sought
7 January, 2019
Our two existing regular Commissioners, David Elvin QC and Neil Pringle, will both be coming to the end of their terms of office during 2019, so our sponsor Department is seeking to appoint two new Members. The vacancy notice and further information about the posts and application process has been …
Boundary Commission for England publishes final recommendations for new constituency boundaries
10 September, 2018
The Boundary Commission for England has today published its final recommendations for new constituency boundaries. This follows submission of its final report to Government last week, and that report now being presented to Parliament. The Commission has now fulfilled its statutory responsibility, and submission of the report and its publication …
Boundary Commission for England submits final report on new constituency boundaries to Government
5 September, 2018
The Boundary Commission for England has today submitted its report containing final recommendations for new constituency boundaries to the Government. In doing so, the Commission has fulfilled its statutory responsibility, and submission of the report ends the Commission’s involvement in the 2018 Boundary Review. It is now up to the …
One week to go….
29 August, 2018
We are delighted to confirm today that we will be submitting our final report, containing recommendations for new constituency boundaries, to the Government on Wednesday 5 September 2018. This will complete our statutory responsibilities in relation to the 2018 Review of Parliamentary constituencies. Our Deputy Chair blogged recently about what happens …
National Democracy Week 2018
2 July, 2018
Fair and impartial boundaries are the basis for a strong democracy – have a look at our Secretary’s blog about how we’re contributing to National Democracy Week 2018.
Towards final recommendations (and beyond)
14 June, 2018
The Deputy Chair of the Commission, Mr Justice Nicol, has blogged here about the closing stages in the 2018 Review of constituencies in England, detailing our plans for submitting our final report and recommendations to government, and outlining what the legislation expects to happen then.