A majority of England residents think Scottish MPs should be barred from voting on England-only matters in the House of Commons, a poll has found.

Some 79 per cent said MPs representing Scottish constituencies should not have a parliamentary vote on issues that only concern England, the YouGov survey for the IPPR think tank found.

Of those, 53 per cent said they were strongly of that opinion.

The poll was published by the IPPR ahead of the launch of the government’s commission on the so-called West Lothian Question which has arisen with devolution.

YouGov interviewed 1,507 adults between July 27 and August 2, 2011. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all British adults.

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