HL Deb 25 October 2001 vol 627 cc137-8WA
Baroness Gale

asked Her Majesty's Government:

When they intend to publish a list of the applicants for the grant of city status and for a Lord Mayoralty or Lord Provostship to mark Her Majesty The Queen's Golden Jubilee. [HL969]

The Lord Chancellor (Lord Irvine of Lairg)

Applications for the grant of city status to mark Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee have been received, and are now under consideration, from the local authorities for the following areas:

England

  • Blackburn with Darwen
  • Blackpool Bolton
  • Chelmsford
  • Colchester
  • Croydon
  • Doncaster
  • Dover
  • Greenwich
  • Guildford
  • Ipswich
  • Luton
  • Maidstone
  • Medway
  • Middlesbrough
  • Milton Keynes
  • Northampton
  • Preston
  • Reading
  • Shrewsbury and Atcham
  • Southend-on-Sea
  • Stockport
  • Swindon
  • Telford
  • Warrington
  • Wirral

Wales

  • Aberystwyth
  • Machynlleth
    • WA 138
  • Newport
  • Newtown
  • St Asaph
  • Wrexham

Scotland

  • Ayr
  • Dumfries
  • Paisley
  • Stirling

Northern Ireland

  • Ballymena
  • Carrickfergus
  • Coleraine
  • Craigavon
  • Lisburn
  • Newry

Applications for the grant of a Lord Mayoralty have been received from the following cities and are also under consideration:

  • Bath
  • Cambridge
  • Carlisle
  • Chichester
  • Derby
  • Exeter
  • Gloucester
  • Lancaster
  • Lincoln
  • St Albans
  • St David's
  • Salford
  • Southampton
  • Sunderland
  • Wolverhampton
  • Worcester