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Mr. John Evans
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Members of Parliament are at present elected from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and each of the eight English regions which are served by regional economic planning councils; and how many Members of Parliament there would be for each of those areas if every MP were to represent exactly the same number of electors taking (a) England as the average, and (b) the North-West Region of England as the average.
Dr. Summerskill
The present distribution of the seats is England 516, Scotland 71, Wales 36, Northern Ireland 12.
| Economic Planning Region | Number of seats at present | Number of seats if each had 64,908 electors (the English average for 1974) | Number of seats if each had 62,425 electors (the average in the North West Region in 1974) | ||||
| Northern | … | … | … | 37 | 35 | 36 | |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | … | 55 | 55 | 57 | |||
| North West | … | … | … | 76 | 73 | 76 | |
| West Midlands | … | … | … | 56 | 57 | 59 | |
| East Midlands | … | … | … | 39 | 41 | 43 | |
| East Anglia | … | … | … | 17 | 19 | 20 | |
| South West | … | … | … | 45 | 47 | 48 | |
| South East | … | … | … | 191 | 189 | 197 | |
| Scotland | … | … | … | 71 | 57 | 59 | |
| Wales | … | … | … | … | 36 | 31 | 32 |
| Northern Ireland | … | … | 12 | 16 | 17 | ||
| Totals | … | … | … | 635 | 620 | 644 | |