To ask the Secretary of State for Health if, pursuant to his written reply to the hon. Member for Derbyshire, North-East (Mr. Barnes) Official Report, 20 January, column 85, he will make it his policy to publish the requested information upon the receipt of the returns from electoral registration officers on 16 February.

The OPCS intends to publish a monitor containing all district electorate figures before the local government elections in May; a second monitor will be published before the forthcoming general election containing as many parliamentary electorate figures as have been collected and verified.