HC Deb 14 March 2000 vol 346 cc159-60W
Mr. Bob Russell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the towns which have applied for city status for the third millennium. [114587]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

The following towns have submitted bids for the grant of city status for the millennium:

England

  • Blackburn with Darwen
  • Blackpool Bolton
  • Brighton and Hove
  • Chelmsford
  • Colchester
  • Croydon
  • Doncaster
  • Dover
  • Guildford
    • 160W
  • Ipswich
  • Luton
  • Maidstone
  • Medway
  • Middlesbrough
  • Milton Keynes
  • Northampton
  • Preston
  • Reading
  • Shrewsbury
  • Southend
  • Southwark
  • Stockport
  • Swindon
  • Telford
  • Warrington
  • Wolverhampton

Northern Ireland

  • Ballymena
  • Lisburn

Scotland

  • Ayr
  • Inverness
  • Paisley
  • Stirling

Wales

  • Aberystwyth
  • Machynlleth
  • Newport
  • Newtown
  • St. Asaph
  • Wrexham.