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Under the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, as amended by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020, the number of MPs is now fixed at 650. The Sainte-Laguë formula method is used to form groups of seats split between the four parts of the United Kingdom and the English regions (as defined by the NUTS 1 statistical ...
Constituency Electorate Ceremonial county Local authority Bishop Auckland CC: 70,879 Durham: County Durham: Blaydon and Consett CC: 70,163 Durham / Tyne and Wear: County Durham / Gateshead: Blyth and Ashington CC: 75,452 Northumberland: Northumberland: City of Durham CC: 72,878 Durham County Durham Cramlington and Killingworth CC: 73,295 ...
A non-domiciled UK resident earning less than £2,000 in a year outside the UK does not pay tax on this unless it is transferred to the UK. This would apply to the typical person taking up a temporary job in the UK, being paid, and paying tax on it, in the UK, with possible additional small earnings in the home country.
In the financial year 2019/20, local authorities received 22% of their funding from grants, 52% from council tax and 27% from retained business rates. [61] In the financial year 2023/24, 51% of revenue expenditure is expected to come from UK Government grants, 31% from council tax and 15% from retained business rates. [27]
Make sure any MP articles link to the constituency, and that the list of MPs links both to the MP and the constituency (MPs elected in the UK general election, 1979 for example) Please can some people help with updating the lists of Parliamentary Constituencies in a certain country (eg. Essex) so that they contain the latest info as of May 2010.
The Fifth Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland related the boundaries of new constituencies to those of Scottish local government council areas and to local government wards. Apart from a few minor adjustments, the council area boundaries dated from 1996 and the ward boundaries dated from 1999.
Rates are a tax on property in the United Kingdom used to fund local government. Business rates are collected throughout the United Kingdom.Domestic rates are collected in Northern Ireland and were collected in England and Wales before 1990 and in Scotland before 1989.
The 'From' date is when the constituencies from a country became constituencies in the Parliament and the 'Until' date is when that distribution of seats ceases to apply. In this table, Great Britain means England, Wales and Scotland and United Kingdom (UK) means Great Britain and Northern Ireland (all of Ireland before 1921).