Impact Of Census Under-Recording
EDM number 1196 in 1990-91, proposed by Alan Williams on 24/07/1991.
That this House notes that more than a million people may have been missed in the census; calculates that this averages over 1,500 per constituency though recognises that there will be a wide range around this number in individual constituencies; believes that this statistical population-loss is largely the result of the poll tax; notes that 45 honourable Members of this House have majorities of less than 1,500; concludes that if the short-fall in census information is reflected in electoral registers then it could have a profound distorting effect on any general election; and believes it would be a grotesque corruption of the democratic process if the Government which was responsible for the policy which produced this under-recording were then to be its electoral beneficiary.
This motion has been signed by a total of 9 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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Alan Williams | 24/07/1991 | Swansea West | Proposed | |
Bob Cryer | 24/07/1991 | Bradford South | Signed | |
Dennis Skinner | 25/07/1991 | Bolsover | Signed | |
Peter Hardy | 25/07/1991 | Wentworth | Signed | |
Alan Meale | 25/07/1991 | Mansfield | Signed | |
Bill Michie | 25/07/1991 | Sheffield, Heeley | Signed | |
Frank Cook | 25/07/1991 | Stockton North | Signed | |
John Cummings | 25/07/1991 | Easington | Signed | |
Harry Barnes | 25/07/1991 | North East Derbyshire | Signed |
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