This report will respond to the Boundary Commission for England’s initial proposals for review of Parliamentary constituency boundaries.

The Head of Law and Governance submitted a report (previously circulated, now appended) giving the Council’s draft response to the Boundary Commission’s review of electoral boundaries in Oxfordshire.

Resolved to endorse the response to the Boundary Commission which made the following statements:-

(1)   To support the proposal to transfer Carfax Ward from Oxford East constituency into Oxford West and Abingdon constituency;

(2)   Not to support the proposed name for the new “Oxford” constituency, feeling that it should retain the name “Oxford East”; and

(3)   Not to support the proposed name for the new “Abingdon and Oxford North” constituency, feeling that it should retain the name “Oxford West and Abingdon”