Lord Actonasked Her Majesty's Government:
When they expect to be in a position to announce the outcome of the recent consultation on proposed boundaries for new health authorities across England. [HL2101]
§ Lord Hunt of Kings HeathWe have announced that, following 22 simultaneous consultation exercises across the whole of England, we are proposing to establish 28 new health authorities from 1 April 2002, when the existing health authorities will be disestablished. Subject to progress with the NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill, these new health authorities are expected to become strategic health authorities by next October. The table indicates the new health authorities and their constituent existing health authorities.
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New Health Authority HAs involved Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridge Cambridgeshire Norfolk Suffolk Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Hertfordshire Essex North Essex South Essex North West London Brent and Harrow Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow Hillingdon Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster North Central London Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Camden and Islington North East London Barking and Havering East London and the City Redbridge and Waltham Forest 62WA
New Health Authority HAs involved South East London Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham South West London Croydon Kingston and Richmond Merton, Sutton & Wandsworth Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Gateshead and South Tyneside Newcastle and North Tyneside Northumberland Sunderland County Durham & Tees Valley County Durham & Darlington Tees North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire East Riding & Hull North Yorkshire South Humber West Yorkshire Bradford Calderdale and Kirklees Leeds Wakefield Cumbria & Lancashire North Cumbria East Lancashire Morecambe Bay North West Lancashire South Lancashire Greater Manchester Bury and Rochdale Manchester Salford and Trafford Stockport West Pennine Wigan and Bolton Cheshire & Merseyside Liverpool North Cheshire Sefton South Cheshire St Helens and Knowsley Wirral Thames Valley Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Hampshire and Isle of Wight North and Mid Hampshire Isle of Wight & Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Southampton and South West Hampshire Kent and Medway East Kent West Kent Surrey and Sussex East Surrey East Sussex, Brighton and Hove West Surrey West Sussex Avon, Gloucestershire & Wiltshire Avon Gloucestershire Wiltshire South West Peninsula Cornwall and Isles of Stilly North and East Devon South and West Devon Somerset & Dorset Dorset Somerset South Yorkshire Barnsley Doncaster Rotherham Sheffield Trent Lincolnshire North Derbyshire North Nottinghamshire Nottingham
New Health Authority HAs involved South Derbyshire Leicestershire, Northamptonshire & Rutland Leicestershire Northamptonshire Shropshire and Staffordshire North Staffordshire Shropshire South Staffordshire Birmingham and the Black Country Birmingham Dudley Sandwell Solihull Walsall Wolverhampton Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Coventry Herefordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire