asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to receive the completed Boundary Commission provisional recommendations for all 516 English parliamentary constituencies.

It is not possible to say precisely when the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England will complete the publication of its provisional recommendations for constituencies. The final recommendations must be made by April 1984.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list provisional recommendations for parliamentary constituencies which have so far been made by the Boundary Commission.

The Boundary Commission for England's published provisional recommendations for constituencies in Cleveland and Nottinghamshire propose six seats for Cleveland in place of the present five seats and parts of three others which lie across the county boundary, and 11 seats for Nottinghamshire in place of the present 10 seats, one of which lies across the county boundary. Copies of the Commission's recommendations have been placed in the Library of the House.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list all parliamentary constituencies with electorates in excess of 70,000 giving the total electorate in each constituency; and if he will list all parliamentary constituencies with electorates of less than 50,000 giving the total electorate in each constituency.

I would refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave on 27th July 1976 to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Lichfield and Tamworth (Mr. Grocott)—[Vol. 916, c. 138–152]—about the electorates of all English constituencies. The information requested for constituencies in the other parts of the United Kingdom is as follows: