Assisted Areas (Hansard, 26 July 1999)

Each proposed ward is adjacent to at least one other.

The proposed wards in Angus and Dundee are contiguous with each other. The other proposed wards in Scotland and the north-east of England are contiguous. The proposed wards in Allerdale and Copeland (apart from Haverigg, Holburn Hill and Newtown) are contiguous; those three wards are contiguous with those in Barrow in Furness and South Lakeland. The proposed wards in Lancaster are contiguous. The proposed wards in Ribble Valley, Hyndburn, Burnley, Rossendale, and Blackburn are 153WA contiguous. The proposed wards in Rochdale and Oldham are contiguous. The proposed wards in Tameside, Manchester, Trafford, Salford and Bolton (apart from Blackrod) are contiguous; that ward is contiguous with the proposed wards in Wigan and West Lancashire, which in turn are adjacent to Merseyside. The proposed wards in Warrington are also adjacent to Merseyside; so too are the contiguous wards proposed in Halton, Vale Royal. Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Alyn and Deeside, Delyn and Wrexham Maelor, which are also adjacent to West Wales and the Valleys. The contiguous proposed wards in Montgomeryshire are also adjacent to West Wales and the Valleys; so too are those in Brecknock; as are the contiguous proposed wards in the Vale of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Newport and Monmouth. The proposed wards in South Hams and Plymouth are contiguous and are adjacent to Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The proposed wards in Lewes, Brighton, Hove and Adur are contiguous. The proposed wards in Thanet, Dover and Shepway are contiguous. The proposed wards in Swale, Gillingham, Rochester, Gravesham, Thurrock, Dartford, Bexley, Havering, Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich and Newham are con tiguous. The proposed wards in Enfield, Haringey and Waltham Forest are contiguous. The proposed wards in Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing and Brent are contiguous. The proposed wards in Luton and South Bedfordshire are contiguous. The proposed wards in Waveney and Great Yarmouth are contiguous. The proposed wards in King's Lynn and West Norfolk and Fenland are contiguous. The proposed wards in Coventry, Rugby, and Nuneaton and Bedworth are contiguous. The proposed wards in Lichfield, Tamworth. North Warwickshire, Solihull, Birmingham, Brom sgrove, Sandwell, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Cannock Chase and South Staffordshire are contiguous. The proposed wards in Newcastle under Lyme, Stoke on Trent, Stafford and Staffordshire Moorlands are contiguous. The proposed wards in North East Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Bolsover, Ashfield, Amber Valley, Gelding, Nottingham, Newark and Sherwood, Mansfield, Bassetlaw and 'West Lindsey are contiguous and are adjacent to South Yorkshire. The contiguous proposed wards in Wakefield, Selby and Boothferry are also adjacent to South Yorkshire. The proposed wards in Bradford are contiguous. The proposed wards in Beverley, Kingston upon Hull, Holderness, Great Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Glanford are contiguous.

The map in Annex A of The Government's Proposals for New Assisted Areas indicates the distribution of the wards listed in Annex B using 1991 district and ward names and boundaries.