Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of the revision of constituency boundaries review undertaken in the 2015-2017 Parliament for (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Northern Ireland and (d) Wales.

During the 2015-17 Parliament, each Boundary Commission spent approximately the following on the conduct of the current Boundary Review which is due to report in 2018:

(a) Scotland - £380,000

(b) England - £2,711,000

(c) Northern Ireland - £374,000

(d) Wales - £441,000

The Sixth Periodic Review of constituency boundaries was due to report in 2013, though it was moved to 2018 following an amendment to the Electoral Registration and Administration (ERA) Act 2013. At the time that the ERA Bill received Royal Assent in January 2013, each of the four Boundary Commissions had spent approximately the following amounts:

(a) Scotland – £680,000

(b) England – £4,867,000

(c) Northern Ireland – £698,000

(d) Wales – £819,000