Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill Debate
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Owen Smith
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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill
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Monday 1st November 2010
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Owen Smith (Pontypridd) (Lab)
Is not the point that my hon. Friend is making—and making very eloquently, I might add—that we should consider the aggregate effect of the Bill on Wales to be just as legitimate a question? We should not just compare one seat with another, but compare England with Wales.
Susan Elan Jones
I agree, and Government Members are showing that they have absolutely no understanding of the historic nature of Wales inside the Union.