asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report the figures, by reference to the electoral register which came into operation in February last, of the 20 constituencies in England with, respectively, the highest and lowest electorates, specifying the same, and the number and percentage by which each exceeds, or falls short of, as the case may be, the prescribed electoral quota of 67,533.

Provisional figures for the 1978 register, including numbers and percentages by which each constituency exceeds or falls short of the electoral quota, will be published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys in an OPCS monitor in a few weeks' time. Such constituencies on the 1977 register may be identified from Table 3 of "Electoral Statistics 1977" published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, copies of which are in the Library of the House.