The Boundaries Commission closed its doors for public submissions last night - but reported that it had received more than 150 written opinions on proposed changes to the constituency make-up.

Chairman Sir Frank Blackman said he would not know until Monday morning how many submissions in total had been given to the commission, but said it was at least 150.

He said submissions entered late yesterday were still be to counted, indexed and taken account for over the weekend.

Last night, Attorney General Dame Lois Browne-Evans, who is a member of the commission, confirmed that Government had submitted its written opinions sometime yesterday. However, she would not be drawn on what the submission contained.

And she said, "to stop all of the guessing", she could confirm that the United Bermuda Party had submitted theirs, too.

However, both Sir Blackman and the Attorney General said they had not seen anything from the National Liberal Party (NLP).

Vice chairman of the NLP Graeme Outerbridge said "We submitted a letter to The Boundaries Commission to have an audience with them. To date, we have had no letter back confirming our initial request.

"As the process has gone along, the relevance has grown less and less, since, at the end of the process, the most important people will not be consulted, and that is the voters.

"We have always been of the opinion that any changes should go to referendum, and the fact that the process is not heading that way, is unsatisfactory. And we are realistic that as a small political party, with no representative in the present Parliament, that our views would not be valued or listened to."

The commission must now look at all of the submissions and come up with their own report on how changes to the constituencies should occur and where.

It will submit a report to the Governor in due course recommending the number of seats and where the boundaries should be drawn in a revamped single-seat electoral system.

The recommendation will then go to the House of Assembly for debate.

The number of MPs, or seats, cannot be less than 20 or more than 40.