HC Deb 11 January 1994 vol 235 cc16-7W
Mr. Straw

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the regional and area offices of his Department, of the Property Services Agency—and its successors—the pollution inspectorate, the National Rivers Authority, the Countryside Commission, the Housing Corporation, the Audit Commission, the Rural Development Commission, the Nature Conservancy Council, and of other inspectorates, agencies and other public bodies for which he is responsible.

Mr. Gummer

[holding answer 17 December 1993]: The regional and area offices of the Department of the Environment and of the agencies and non-departmental public bodies for which I have responsibility are as listed. 1. Regional Offices of the Department of the Environment Northern (Newcastle Upon Tyne), Yorkshire and Humberside (Leeds), North West (Manchester), West Midlands (Birmingham), East Midlands (Nottingham), Eastern (Bedford), South West (Bristol), South East (London), Merseyside Task Force (Liverpool), London. 2. Property Services Agency Following the sale in 1993 of PSA's Building Management businesses, PSA Services now has headquarters in Central London, Croydon and Hastings, together with smaller outstationed offices in Croydon, Bristol, Cambridge, Manchester, Leeds and Edinburgh. 3. HMIP Anglian (Bedford, Lincoln) Midlands (Sutton Coldfield) North East (Leeds, Sheffield, Thornaby) North West (Lancaster, Runcorn) Southern (Fleet, East Grinstead) South West (Bristol) Wales (Cardiff). 4. Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) and other organisations sponsored by the Secretary of State for the Environment, as at December 1993. Executive Agencies Building Research Establishment: Garston, Borehamwood, Cardington, East Kilbride.

  • The Planning Inspectorate: Bristol, Cardiff.
  • Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre: London.
  • The Buying Agency: Liverpool.
  • Security Facilities Executive: London, Burtonwood, Cardiff.
  • Ordnance Survey: Southampton, and 120 field offices throughout Great Britain.

Executive NDPBs

  • Audit Commission: London, Bristol, Chorley, Exeter, Gateshead, Leeds, Redhill, Solihull, Stevenage, Winchester, Cardiff (and other local offices in England and Wales)
  • British Board of Agrément: Garston
  • Commission for the New Towns: London, Basildon, Milton Keynes, Telford, Warrington
  • Countryside Commission: Cheltenham, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • English Nature: Peterborough, Ashford, Newbury, Newcastle upon Tyne, Shrewsbury, Taunton, Windermere
  • English Partnerships: London
  • Housing Action Trusts: Birmingham (Castle Vale), Hull, Liverpool, London (Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest)
  • Housing Corporation: London, Croydon, Exeter, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Wolverhampton
  • Joint Nature Conservation Committee: Peterborough
  • Letchworth Garden City Corporation: Letchworth
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  • Local Government Commission: London
  • London Pensions Fund Authority: London
  • London Residuary Body: London
  • National Rivers Authority: Bristol, Birmingham, Bridgewater, Exeter, Leeds, London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Peterborough, Reading, Solihull, Warrington, Worthing, Cardiff, plus 89 district offices, 121 depots and 27 fish farms and laboratories
  • Rural Development Commission: Salisbury, London, Bedford, Belper, Bingham, Bury St Edmonds, Darlington, Dorchester, Exeter, Goole, Lewes, Maidstone, Malvern, Moreton-in-Marsh, Morpeth, Nantwich, Newport (Isle of Wight), Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Penrith, Preston, Skelton, Sleaford, Stoneleigh Park, Taunton, Telford, Truro, Winchester
  • United Kingdom Ecolabelling Board: London
  • Urban Development Corporations: Birmingham (Black Country and Heartlands), Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Docklands), Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Plymouth, Sheffield, Stockton-On-Tees

Advisory NDPBs

  • Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council: Birmingham
  • Local Government Staff Commission: London
  • Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution: London

Tribunals

  • Commons Commission: London
  • Rent Assessment Panels: Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Ipswich, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Plymouth, Southampton, Watford, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow
Valuation Tribunals: Aylesbury, Birmingham, Bolton, Botley, Bridlington, Cheltenham, Chester, Chesterfield, Chichester, Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Croydon, Darlington, Doncaster, Dudley, Eastbourne, Harrow, Hertford, Homcastle, Hounslow, Ilford, Ipswich, Leamington Spa, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Maidstone, Middlesbrough, North Shields, Norwich, Nottingham, Peterborough, Plymouth, Preston, Southampton, Stafford, Whitehaven, Winchester, Witham, Woking, Wokingham, Worcester, Yeovil. (There are also Tribunal offices in Cardiff, Carmarthen, Colwyn Bay and Newport.)

Other Bodies British Waterways Board (Nationalised Industry): Watford, Bilston, Bradford, Bromsgrove, Burton-on-Trent, Castleford, Devizes, Ellesmere, Enfield, Gloucester, Hemel Hempstead, Lancaster, Leeds, London (Paddington), Loughborough, Manchester, Northwich, Nottingham, Nuneaton, Rugby, Stafford, Tamworth, Tring, Warwick, Wigan, York, Abergavenny, Argyll, Falkirk, Glasgow, Inverness. Commission for Local Administration: London, Coventry, York. Office of Water Services (OFWAT): Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Exeter, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cardiff.

Notes:

1. For Agencies and NDPBs, where only one office is listed this is the headquarters; every Housing Action Trust and Urban Development Corporation has one office. For organisations with more than one office, headquarters offices are shown in italics.

2. Where an organisation operates in a very large number of locations, the main ones have been listed and numbers given for the rest.

3. Offices in Wales and Scotland are shown for organisations operating throughout Great Britain.

4. Other advisory NDPBs operate from the Department's offices in London.