Question reference: S4W-00614
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 8 June 2011
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Current status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 17 June 2011
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to redraw local authority boundaries in Airdrie and Shotts in the current parliamentary session.
Answer
The Scottish Government currently has no plans to redraw the boundaries of local authority areas in Airdrie and Shotts. The Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland has the duty to review local authority area boundaries and to recommend changes resulting from any such review to ministers. This duty is subject to any ministerial direction given to the commission about the scope of reviews. Ministerial directions have been in place since 1999 restricting the commission to small scale reviews affecting a limited number of electors.