Electoral Administration Bill

I note the point that my hon. Friend makes; the Minister may wish to respond to it later. I shall take my constituency as an example of the consequences of under-registration. About 10,000 people who live in my constituency are not registered. As a result, we had to go through in a boundary redistribution, as did every constituency in the country. Although my area has the same number of seats—in fact, the changes made locally are relatively minor—a significant number of seats disappeared nationally. That leads to the conclusion that the number of people not registered significantly contributes to the reduction in representation in different parts of the country.