§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what regional organisation his Department has; and if he will list the counties and unitary authorities in each region in(a) 1997 and (b) 2002. [58936]
§ Beverley HughesThe Home Office operates through the Government offices for the regions, who carry out a number of functions at regional level such as the regional management of crime reduction and drug treatment programmes and liaison with local partnerships. A table 961W setting out the structure of the Government office regions and the counties and unitary authorities in 1997 and 2002 is as follows.
Other parts of the Department with specific operational responsibilities have their own regional organisational structures. Since April 2000, the Prison Service has operated an area manager structure that is based on the Government regions. Two regions are divided between two area managers: the south-east (one for Thames Valley, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and one for Kent, Surrey and Sussex) and east midlands north (Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, Derby and Nottingham) and south (Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, Leicester and Rutland). Previously area managers had been based in London. The National Probation Service regions mirror the Government office regions.
Both the National Asylum Support Service (NASS) and the Immigration Service (IS) in Immigration and Nationality Department operate regional structures. NASS, which became fully operational in April 2000, has regional representatives in each Government region, and
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Regions, counties and unitaries in England Region County authorities Unitary authorities East of England Bedfordshire Luton* Cambridgeshire Peterborough* Essex Southend-on-Sea* Hertfordshire Thurrock* Norfolk Suffolk East Midlands Derbyshire Derby* Leicestershire Leicester* Lincolnshire Nottingham* Northamptonshire Rutland* Nottinghamshire London Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Corporation of London Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston-upon-Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond-upon-Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster operates broadly within that regional structure, with some minor differences for local operational reasons.
The Immigration Service operates at ports and airports across the United Kingdom and had, until 2002, an Immigration Service regional organisation with four regional districts: Scotland, Northern Ireland, North-west England and north Wales; North-east England, the east midlands and East Anglia and South-west England and mid and south Wales. London and the south-east came under Immigration Service South East. From 2002 the regional boundaries of the IS were realigned to more closely match the Government office regions. The present structure, managed by regional operations headquarters in Manchester, comprises:
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- Scotland
- North-west England, Northern Ireland and North Wales
- North-east England (which includes Yorkshire and the Humber)
- Southern England
- West midlands
- Eastern (east midlands and East Anglia, including Lincolnshire)
- South-west England, mid and south Wales.
- London (including Heathrow and Gatwick) and Kent are managed by Immigration Service headquarters, Croydon.
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Regions, counties and unitaries in England Region County authorities Unitary authorities North East Durham Darlington* Northumberland Hartlepool Middlesbrough Redcar and Cleveland Stockton-on-Tees Metropolitan authorities in Tyne and Wear Gateshead Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside South Tyneside Sunderland North West Cumbria Blackburn with Darwen* Cheshire Blackpool* Lancashire Halton* Warrington* Metropolitan authorities in Greater Mancheste Bury Bolton Manchester Oldham Rochdale Salford Stockport Tameside Trafford Wigan Metropolitan authorities in Merseyside Knowsley Liverpool Sefton St. Helens Wirral South East Buckinghamshire Brighton and Hove* East Sussex Isle of Wight (County) Hampshire Medway* Kent Milton Keynes* Oxfordshire Portsmouth* Surrey Southampton* West Sussex Unitary authorities in Berkshire: Bracknell Forest* Reading* Slough* West Berkshire* Windsor and Maidenhead* Wokingham* South West Cornwall Bath and North East Somerset Devon Bournemouth* Dorset Bristol Gloucestershire North Somerset Somerset Poole* Wiltshire Plymouth* South Gloucestershire Swindon* Torbay* West Midlands Shropshire Herefordshire* Staffordshire Stoke on Trent* Warwickshire Telford and Wrekin* Worcestershire Metropolitan authorities in West Midlands Birmingham Coventry Dudley Sandwell Solihull Walsall Wolverhampton Yorkshire and the Humber North Yorkshire East Riding of Yorkshire Kingston upon Hull North Lincolnshire North East Lincolnshire York
Regions, counties and unitaries in England Region County authorities Unitary authorities Metropolitan authorities in South Yorkshire Barnsley Doncaster Rotherham Sheffield Metropolitan authorities in West Yorkshire Bradford Calderdale Kirklees Leeds Wakefield Note:
The unitary authorities that came into being as a result of the last local government review were established over three years. Those established on or after 1 April 1997 are asterisked.