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Any questions relating to the composition of parliament, the workings of parliament and national, special, local and regional elections

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Stood in the local elections of June 2004 and have data going back to 1950 for the UK parliament and 1832 for Welsh constituencies

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Recent Answers from Harry Hayfield

2009-09-01 taxes:

The UK has two layers of taxation. Federal Taxation (for instance income tax and sales tax) and local taxation (which is basically the amount of money that a council needs to exist minus the amount of

2008-11-18 Contra Preferentum:

Contra proferentem is a rule of contractual interpretation which provides that an ambiguous term will be construed against the party that imposed its inclusion in the contract – or, more accurately, against

2008-01-09 Prime Minister's Questions:

The procedure is that anyone who wants to ask a question at PMQ's gives it to the Speaker before PMQ's (I think the day before). The Speaker then calls out the MP's name and he says "Question Number 1"

2008-01-09 Prime Minister's Questions:

Well, they are not playing musical chairs (perhaps I shouldn't have said that with the BBC comedy series Dead Ringers about to start up soon). What they are actually doing is "catching Mr. Speaker's eye"

2006-09-11 who will choose the prime minister:

In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the leader of the largest party in the House of Commons. If a party changes leader between elections, there is no requirement for that new leader to face the

 

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