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Oral Answers to Questions

Meg Munn Excerpts
Tuesday 1st March 2011

(13 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House is working on a proposal to deliver precisely what my hon. Friend has described: the ability of people who petition the House to ensure that their demands are heard on the Floor of the House of Commons. That is one of a number of innovations that will open up the way in which we scrutinise legislation and allow the public, as well as ourselves, to have a say in how we do it.

Meg Munn Portrait Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley) (Lab/Co-op)
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How will the boundary reviews take the 2011 census into account, given that the preliminary results will not be available until the middle of next year?

Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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As the hon. Lady may know, we are basing the boundary reviews on the electoral register rather than the census. That has been standard practice for a long time, and we do not intend to change it.