§ Mr. David Steelasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he 291W will advise metropolitan and non-metropolitan county councils which currently are considering the re-warding of their electoral divisions; and what time he expects such a process to have been completed in order, in each case, for the 1981 county elections to be contested under revised, rather than existing, boundaries.
§ Mr. WhitelawThis matter is the subject of consultations between my Department and the local authority associations cerned, with a view to providing firm advice to county councils before the Summer Recess.
§ Mr. David Steelasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in the Official Report all those metropolitan and non-metropolitan county councils where electoral boundaries currently are under review, those in which any such changes have already been agreed and those where no review is being conducted.
§ Mr. WhitelawThe information requested is as follows:
A Counties for which electoral arrangements are currently under review by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England
Metropolitan County
South Yorkshire
Non-metropolitan County
- Avon
- Bedfordshire
- Cheshire
- Cleveland
- Cumbria
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Durham
- East Sussex
- Essex
- Hampshire
- Hereford and Worcester
- Hertfordshire
- Humberside
- Isle of Wight
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Lincolnshire
- Norfolk
- Northamptonshire
- North Yorkshire
- Somerset
- Staffordshire
- Surrey
- Warwickshire
- Wiltshire
- B Counties for which final proposals have been submitted to me by the Local Government Boundary Commission
Non-metropolitan County
- Northumberland
- Nottinghamshire
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C Counties for which a review of electoral arrangements has not yet begun
Metropolitan County
- Greater Manchester
- Merseyside
- Tyne and Wear
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
- Non-metropolitan County
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cornwall
- Dorset
- Gloucestershire
- Leicestershire
- Oxfordshire
- Suffolk
- West Sussex