§ 41. Mr. David Priceasked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will list by reference to the new counties of England the standard regions of England as currently used by the home Departments and where any Departments use different geography to identify the differences.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThe regions most commonly used for regional planning and development purposes and to which regional statistics generally relate are the economic planning regions. I will circulate the details in the OFFICIAL REPORT by reference to the new counties. Apart from these, departments use other boundaries drawn by reference to their own administrative and operational requirements. There are a large number of variants. The information is as follows:
Northern
Northumberland, Cumbria (part), Tyne and Wear, Durham, Cleveland and North Yorkshire (part).
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Cumbria (part), Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Derbyshire (part).
Yorkshire & Humberside
North Yorkshire (part), West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Humberside. Lincolnshire (part).
East Midlands
Derbyshire (part), Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire (part), Leicestershire, Northamptonshire.
West Midlands
Salop, Staffordshire, West Midlands, Hereford and Worcester, Warwickshire.
East Anglia
Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire.
South West
Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Avon, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorset (part).
South East
Dorset (part), Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Greater London, Surrey, Kent, West Sussex, East Sussex, Isle of Wight.
These boundaries will need to be reviewed in the light of the new local government boundaries, and in the light of the forthcoming report of the Commission on the Constitution. The new local government boundaries come into operation on 1st April 1974.