§ Mr. PikeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list(a) those non-unitary local authorities in England with populations over 90,000 and (b) those unitary authority local authorities with populations under 120,000 (i) at present and (ii) following completion of the local government reorganisation. [30000]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordAll county councils have a population over 90,000. The following district councils which are currently non-unitary, have populations over 90,000—using Office of Population Censuses and Surveys figures as at mid-1994. For those districts marked with an asterisk, either orders establishing unitary authorities have been made or draft orders have been consulted upon.
- Luton* 180,848
- Mid Bedfordshire 114,853
- Bedford 137,001
- South Bedfordshire 110,389
- Bracknell Forest* 104,635
- Newbury* 141,581
- Reading* 138,503
- Slough* 104,945
- Windsor and Maidenhead* 137,781
- Wokingham* 141,735
- Aylesbury Vale 152,033
- Chiltern 91,432
- Milton Keynes* 188,447
- Wycombe 162,588
- Cambridge 113,009
- Huntingdonshire 149,869
- Peterborough* 158,654
- South Cambridgeshire 123,563
- Chester 120,622
- Crewe and Nantwich 111,422
- Halton* 123,727
- Macclesfield 151,503
220 - Vale Royal 114,695
- Warrington* 186,749
- Allerdale 96,125
- Carlisle 103,335
- South Lakeland 100,263
- Amber Valley 114,451
- Chesterfield 101,104
- Derby* 230,473
- Erewash 107,142
- North East Derbyshire 99,180
- East Devon 122,839
- Exeter 104,537
- Plymouth* 255,815
- Teignbridge 114,088
- Torbay* 122,990
- Bournemouth* 160,139
- Poole* 138,100
- Darlington* 100,612
- Easington 97,980
- Sedgefield 91,405
- Brighton* 154,942
- Hove* 91,338
- Wealden 134,936
- Basildon 162,114
- Braintree 123,648
- Chelmsford 155,800
- Colchester 149,621
- Epping Forest 118,943
- Southend-on-Sea* 169,948
- Tendering 130,915
- Thurrock* 131,368
- Cheltenham 106,782
- Gloucester 104,735
- Stroud 106,271
- Basingstoke and Deane 147,193
- East Hampshire 108,209
- Eastleigh 110,780
- Fareham 101,764
- Havant 119,430
- New Forest 166,354
- Portsmouth* 189,270
- Southampton* 211,718
- Test Valley 105,318
- Winchester 101,848
- Bromsgrove 93,968
- Wychavon 104,577
221 - Wyre Forest 97,239
- Dacorum 134,231
- East Hertfordshire 121,624
- Hertmere 94,195
- North Hertfordshire 114,303
- St. Albans 128,739
- Welwyn Hatfield 94,682
- Ashford 94,765
- Canterbury 133,859
- Dover 106,938
- Gillingham* 96,165
- Gravesham 92,914
- Maidstone 138,456
- Rochester upon Medway* 145,463
- Sevenoaks 109,919
- Shepway 96,464
- Swale 117,195
- Thanet 125,301
- Tonbridge and Mailing 102,765
- Tunbridge Wells 102,727
- Blackburn* 140,147
- Blackpool* 153,971
- Burnley 90,530
- Chorley 96,854
- Lancaster 134,991
- Preston 133,127
- South Ribble 103,592
- West Lancashire 110,226
- Wyre 103,927
- Charnwood 153,144
- Hinckley and Bosworth 97,707
- Leicester* 293,387
- East Lindsey 121,431
- South Kesteven 115,229
- Breckland 112,171
- Broadland 110,069
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 130,958
- North Norfolk 94,300
- Norwich 127,778
- South Norfolk 104,467
- Northampton 187,608
- Harrogate 148,412
- Scarborough 108,654
- Ashfield 109,863
- Bassetlaw 105,479
- Broxtowe 112,170
- Gedling 111,659
- Mansfield 102,127
- Newark and Sherwood 104,149
- Nottingham* 282,440
- Rushcliffe 102,967
- Cherwell 127,456
- Oxford 132,758
- South Oxfordshire 121,823
- Vale of White Horse 113,195
- West Oxfordshire 94,981
- Shrewsbury and Atcham 94,622
- The Wrekin* 143,430
222 - Mendip 98,017
- Sedgemoor 101,443
- South Somerset 148,298
- Taunton Deane 98,158
- Cannock Chase 90,789
- East Staffordshire 98,972
- Lichfield 93,619
- Newcastle under Lyme 123,137
- South Staffordshire 104,379
- Stafford 122,458
- Staffordshire Moorlands 95,072
- Stoke on Trent* 254,197
- Ipswich 114,065
- St. Edmundsbury 92,840
- Suffolk Coastal 113,163
- Waveney 107,604
- Elmbridge 119,717
- Guildford 126,162
- Reigate and Banstead 118,340
- Spelthorne 91,448
- Waverley 114,758
- Nuneaton and Bedworth 119,142
- Stratford on Avon 109,462
- Warwick 119,758
- Arun 134,328
- Chichester 103,078
- Horsham 114,324
- Mid Sussex 125,109
- Worthing 97,392
- North Wiltshire 118,899
- Salisbury 110,015
- Thamesdown* 173,516
- West Wiltshire 110,035
The following local authorities have populations under 120,000. Those marked with an asterisk are unitary authorities at present; for the reminder, either orders establishing unitary authorities have been made or draft orders have been consulted upon.
- City of London* 5,222
- Bracknell Forest 104,635
- Slough 104,945
- Hartlepool* 92,228
- Darlington 100,612
- Rutland 33,639
- Isles of Scilly* 2,017