§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which of the agencies and NDPBs 1063W 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 LewisThe 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
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- 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
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- 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
1066WCounties
- 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.