The census of which year was the first, in which the people of Great Britain were required to fill in the form themselves?
Census in the United Kingdom did not participate for political reasons. In 1911, the Women's Freedom League, a suffragette organisation campaigning for female suffrage in the United Kingdom, organised a boycott of the census. They encouraged women to go to all-night parties or to stay at friends' houses to avoid the census. In 1991, many people again avoided the census, which was conducted during the time of the poll tax debate, in case the government used it to enforce the tax. It was estimated that up to one million people were not counted by the 1991 census due to such evasion. Under section 8 of
Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain sooner dissolved, at the end of the term of three years from the first meeting of the last Parliament of England, which would have been on 14 June 1708. Dissolution: The 1st Parliament of Great Britain was dissolved on 3 April 1708. Scotland was entitled to 45 Members in the new House of Commons. The Scottish legislation prescribed the constituencies from which the Members of the Commons from Scotland were in future to be elected. These constituencies were first used in the election of 1708 to the 2nd Parliament. Of the 45 Members returned to the Parliament of Great Britain,