HC Deb 07 May 1996 vol 277 cc69-70W
Mrs. Roche

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list rural development areas, indicating when their boundaries last changed. [28155]

Mr. Clappison

A map of the Rural Development Commission's priority rural development areas can be found in the commission's 1995 corporate plan, a copy of which is in the House of Commons Library. The current areas are as follows:

  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
  • Cumbria
  • Devon
  • Doncaster
  • Dorset
  • Durham
  • East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire (ex Humberside)
  • East Sussex
  • Essex
  • Gloucestershire
  • Hereford and Worcester
  • Isle of Wight
  • Kent
  • Lancashire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Norfolk
  • North East Derbyshire
  • North Yorkshire
  • Northumberland
  • Nottinghamshire
  • North West Leicestershire and South Derbyshire
  • Redcar and Cleveland (ex Cleveland)
  • Rotherham
  • Shropshire
  • Somerset
  • Staffordshire
  • Suffolk
  • West Derbyshire
  • West Yorkshire
  • Wiltshire.

The commission carried out a comprehensive review of its rural development areas during 1992–93. The current boundaries became effective on 1 April 1994.