HC Deb 10 June 2002 vol 386 cc1062-6W
Mr. Andrew Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which of the agencies and NDPBs sponsored by her Department have a regional organisation; and if she will list the counties and unitary authorities in each region in (a) 1997 and (b) 2002. [58945]

Mr. Ivan Lewis

The Department for Education and Skills sponsors no agencies or NDPBs that have a regional organisation.

The counties and unitary authorities in each region in (a) 1997 and (b) 2002 are as follows:

Region, counties and unitaries

The unitary authorities that came into being as a result of the last review were established over three years.

East of England Region Counties

  • Bedfordshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Essex
  • Hertfordshire
  • Norfolk
  • Suffolk
Unitaries
  • Luton1
  • Peterborough1
  • Southend-on-Sea1
  • Thurrock1

East Midlands Region Counties

  • Derbyshire
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Northamptonshire
  • Nottinghamshire
Unitaries
  • Derby1
  • Leicester1
  • Nottingham1
  • Rutland1

North East Region Counties

  • Durham
  • Northumberland
Unitaries
  • Darlington1
  • Hartlepool
  • Middlesbrough
  • Redcar and Cleveland
  • Stockton-on-Tees
  • Tyne and Wear (Met)
  • Gateshead
  • Newcastle upon Tyne
  • North Tyneside
  • South Tyneside
  • Sunderland

North West Region Counties

  • Cumbria
  • Cheshire
  • Lancashire
Unitaries
  • Blackburn with Darwen1
  • Blackpool1
  • Halton1
  • Warrington1
  • Greater Manchester (Met) Bury
  • Bolton
  • Manchester Oldham
  • Rochdale
  • Salford
  • Stockport
  • Tameside
  • Trafford
  • Wigan
Merseyside (Met)
  • Knowsley
  • Liverpool
  • Sefton
  • St. Helens
  • Wirral

South East Region Counties

  • Buckinghamshire
  • Oxfordshire
  • East Sussex
  • Hampshire
  • Kent
  • Surrey
  • West Sussex
Unitaries
  • Brighton and Hove1
  • Isle of Wight (County)
  • Medway1
  • Milton Keynes1
  • Portsmouth1
  • Southampton1
  • Berkshire
    • Bracknell Forest1
    • Reading1
    • Slough1
    • West Berkshire1
    • Windsor and Maidenhead1
    • Wokingham1

South West Region Counties

  • Cornwall
  • Devon
  • Dorset
  • Gloucestershire
  • Somerset
  • Wiltshire
Unitaries
  • Bath and North East Somerset
  • Bournemouth1
  • Bristol
  • North Somerset
  • Poole1
  • Plymouth1
  • South Gloucestershire
  • Swindon1
  • Torbay1

West Midlands Region Counties

  • Shropshire
  • Staffordshire
  • Warwickshire
  • Worcestershire
Unitaries
  • Herefordshire1
  • Stoke on Trent1
  • Telford and Wrekin1
  • West Midlands (Met)
  • Birmingham
    • Coventry
    • Dudley
    • Sandwell
    • Solihull
    • Walsall
    • Wolverhampton

Yorkshire and The Humber Region Counties

  • North Yorkshire
Unitaries
  • East Riding of Yorkshire
  • Kingston upon Hull
  • North Lincolnshire
  • North East Lincolnshire
  • York
  • South Yorkshire (Met)
    • Barnsley
    • Doncaster
    • Rotherham
    • Sheffield
West Yorkshire (Met)
  • Bradford
  • Calderdale
  • Kirklees
  • Leeds
  • Wakefield

London Region London Boroughs (Unitaries)

  • Barking and Dagenham
  • Barnet
  • Bexley
  • Brent
  • Bromley
  • Camden
  • Corporation of London
  • Croydon
  • Ealing
  • Enfield
  • Greenwich Hackney
  • Hammersmith and Fulham
  • Haringey
  • Harrow
  • Havering
  • Hillingdon
  • Hounslow
  • Islington
  • Kensington and Chelsea
  • Kingston upon Thames
  • Lambeth
  • Lewisham Merton
  • Newham
  • Redbridge
  • Richmond upon Thames
  • Southwark
  • Sutton
  • Tower Hamlets
  • Waltham Forest
  • Wandsworth Westminster

1 Established on or after 1 April 1997.

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