§ Mr. Boyesasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the names of those district councils which have not yet commenced parish reviews; and what action he intends to take.
§ Mr. ChopeThe duty of councils under section 48(8) of the Local Government Act 1972 to keep the parish arrangements in their districts under review does not extend to an obligation to carry out parish reviews under section 60. My right hon. Friend would not normally seek to question the exercise of their discretion in this. They are not required to notify him when they commence a review, and I am therefore unable to provide the list requested.
§ Mr. Boyesasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the number of electors per councillor in county and district councils in England and Wales.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggI have been asked to reply.
The table gives for each county in England and Wales, the number of electors per county councillor and the number of electors per district councillor, based on the number of local government electors on the 1986 electoral registers as shown in "Electoral Statistics—Local Government 1986" (OPCS Monitor EL 86/1). 669W
Number of electors 1 on the 1986 electoral registers per county and district councillor in each county of England and Wales County England Number of Electors per county Councillor Number of Electors per District Councillor Avon 9,588 2,235 Bedfordshire 5,227 1,843 Berkshire 7,120 1,926 Buckinghamshire 6,366 1,772 Cambridgeshire 6,030 1,688 Cheshire 10,214 1,663 Cleveland 5,500 1,970 Cornwall 24,411 21,410 Cumbria 4,571 1,336 Derbyshire 8,510 1,823 Devon 8,940 1,711 Dorset 6,570 1,692 Durham 6,513 1,303 East Sussex 7,843 1,887 Essex 11,918 1,794 Gloucestershire 6,327 1,527 Greater London — 32,687 Greater Manchester — 3,067 Hampshire 11,367 2,002 Hereford & Worcester 6,613 1,453 Hertfordshire 9,700 1,620 Humberside 8,793 1,695 Isle of Wight 2,294 1,644 Kent 11,580 1,633 Lancashire 10,735 1,501 Leicestershire 7,782 2,005 Lincolnshire 5,711 1,456 Merseyside — 3,205 Norfolk 6,673 1,597 Northamptonshire 6,142 1,606 Northumberland 3,548 1,014 North Yorkshire 5,577 1,976 Nottinghamshire 8,783 1,942 Oxfordshire 5,880 1,627 Shropshire 4,489 1,255 Somerset 6,076 1,487 South Yorkshire — 3,578 Staffordshire 9,593 1,736 Suffolk 5,777 1,530 Surrey 10,460 1,636 Tyne & Wear — 2,647 Warwickshire 5,969 1,630 West Midlands — 4,139 West Sussex 7,712 1,789 West Yorkshire — 4,135 Wiltshire 5,472 1,661 England 7,463 2,038 Wales Clwyd 4,688 1,351 Dyfed 3,275 1,202 Gwent 4,301 1,568 Gwynedd 2,768 942 Mid Glamorgan 4,764 1,576 Powys 1,675 668 South Glamorgan 4,671 2,609 West Glamorgan 4,093 1,936 Wales 3,856 1,436 England and Wales 6,897 1,991 1 Includes attainers, service voters, voluntary patients and peers 2 Excludes the Isles of Scilly 3 Excludes the City of London