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	Regional Assemblies in England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Regional Assembly is a title which has universally been adopted by the English bodies established as regional chambers under the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998.
		About two-thirds of Assembly members are appointees from the County and District councils and Unitary authorities in each Region, the remaining one-third are representatives of other regional interest groups.
		The Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003 made provisions for referendums to be held to create such assemblies, and to simplify the structure of Local Government where this is done.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regional_Assemblies (441 words)

	Encyclopedia: Regional Assemblies
		The London Assembly is an elected body that supervises the Greater London Authority and the Mayor of London.
		The Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003 (2003 c 10) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		Yorkshire and The Humber is one of the regions of England.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Regional-Assemblies (1605 words)

	Regional Assemblies in England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Regional Assembly is a title which has universally been adopted by the English bodies established as regional chambers under the.
		In May 2002 the Government published a White Paper "Your Region, Your Choice" [1] (http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_regions/documents/page/odpm_regions_607900.hcsp) outlining its plans for the possible establishment of Elected Regional Assemblies.
		Regional Assembly for Yorkshire and the Humber (http://www.rayh.gov.uk)
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Regional_Assemblies (478 words)

	IA DNR: REAP Regional Assemblies
		Regional REAP Assemblies are a must to attend for people interested in any facet of REAP ---- particularly those who truly and sincerely want to make a difference.
		In regions having exactly five counties, the tendency is to have county caucuses.
		As you can see, it is important to people attending the assemblies that delegates and alternates be aligned by county boundaries and the distribution of elected people be as equal and fair as possible among all counties.
	www.iowadnr.com /reap/rassemblies.html (672 words)

	Possible models for regional assemblies in England
		Legislation to permit elected regional assemblies in England was promised in Labour's 1997 manifesto and, in shorter form, in the 2001 manifesto.
		Regional Chambers have begun to establish themselves and to contribute to the co-ordination and scrutiny of regional policy.
		As it is not a region known for its enthusiasm for regional assemblies, its use helps to demonstrate the applicability of the models to all regions.
	www.jrf.org.uk /knowledge/findings/government/841.asp (2315 words)

	BBC - Action Network - - A3161279 - Elected regional assemblies: an Action Network briefing
		Elected regional assemblies are intended to draw together and extend the powers of the government regional offices, regional development agencies and various government-sponsored organisations — also known as quangos.
		Campaign for the English Regions is an umbrella group for regional campaigns and aims to increase the visibility of the issue of regional government at a national level.
		Regional Assemblies.co.uk is against the regionalisation of government in England.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A3161279 (1374 words)

	Federal Union \| regional government
		Assembly committees should be responsible for maintaining relations with the local authorities in the region (para.
		Finally, the regional assemblies are to be endowed with borrowing powers to fund capital expenditure, subject to limits imposed by Whitehall.
		The functions proposed for the English regions are roughly analogous to those exercised by the Welsh Assembly, where 60 members represent a population of 3.5 million.
	www.federalunion.org.uk /uk/whitepaperresponse.shtml (3020 words)

	Regional Assemblies - Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle
		These Assemblies were convened by the Diocesan Pastoral Council as part of the process of the 2004 Diocesan Assembly "to hear God's people and empower them to participate fully in Christ's mission".
		The Regional Assemblies sought to invite the participation of a larger and broader range of people from across the diocese than traditionally are able to be involved in the structure of a Diocesan Assembly, with a special focus on young adults.
		The Assemblies also aimed at engaging people with stimulus material that would help them develop their understanding of the influences which have shaped the Church as we experience it today - the culture in which we live, and the type of Church we are called to be.
	www.mn.catholic.org.au /parishes/regional_assemblies.htm (563 words)

	Regional Assemblies - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Prescott's regional assemblies project is just a con job and from what I understand, much of the responsibilities and activities will not be accountable to local people in any respect as they will be controlled by unelected quangos.
		Regional Assemblies are the governing bodies of the forthcoming EU fiefdoms.
		I agree, regional assemblies like the ones planned a few years ago are a disasterous move, pretty much for the reasons said so far, and I do believe its part of the EU plan to break down all manner of countries into little pieces with no real power or voice.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=110357 (1458 words)

	Regional government in England
		Current proposals for regional government in England are a response to: growing dissatisfaction with highly centralised government; a decline in the autonomy of local government and a perceived failure to address regional economic development and strategic planning needs.
		A workable and durable regional tier requires clear analysis of the reasons why it is to be established and the role and function it is to perform.
		These are not mutually exclusive, but most promising at regional level are the models of indirectly elected Regional Chambers (a confederation of local authorities) and directly elected Regional Assemblies (an independent tier) which are adopted as the framework of this report.
	www.jrf.org.uk /knowledge/findings/government/G50.asp (2225 words)

	Regional Meetings
		A Regional Assembly is an annual meeting of the Bishop and clergy and delegates from the congregations of the six geographic regions of the Diocese.
		There may be a separate Regional Assembly for each region, or two or more regions may be combined for one Assembly.
		Regional elections are held to fill one of three offices - Regional Convener, Lay Regional Representative to Diocesan Council, Clergy Regional Representative to Diocesan Council.
	www.edow.org /parish/congregation/conferences/regionals.html (324 words)

	FOE Briefing: A vote for sustainable regions? View on elected regional assemblies
		FOE therefore welcomes the publication of a White Paper on regional governance that addresses both the mechanism for establishing elected assemblies in regions which want them, and ways of working for those regions which choose not to have an elected assembly.
		The Assembly should have a duty to produce a scheme setting out how it proposes, in the exercise of its functions, to promote sustainable development, which should be reviewed after each election to the Assembly.
		It is important, however, that the regional level should add value to participative decision-making, and not withdraw from local communities their rights to understand and influence the developments that shape their lives.
	www.foe.co.uk /pubsinfo/briefings/html/20020228172656.html (620 words)

	Regional assemblies become private firms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Several of the unelected "regional assemblies" he has set up as embryo governments, which receive millions of pounds of public money and are playing an increasingly important role in local government, are now turning themselves into limited companies, not least to protect their members against legal claims for misuse of public funds.
		The district auditor upheld complaints that the North-East Assembly was misusing funds contributed by 25 local councils by publishing propaganda promoting an elected assembly before Mr Prescott's planned series of referendums.
		They already exercise a key planning role, co-ordinating regional plans in accordance with the EU's European Spatial Development Perspective (control of strategic planning was handed over to the EU under the Maastricht Treaty).
	www.neilherron.co.uk /800/articles/10.htm (440 words)

	REGIONAL ASSEMBLIES NOT WANTED IN THE SOUTH EAST, SURVEY REVEALS
		There is little appetite for regional government among residents across the south east of England, according to new research conducted by MORI on behalf of seven county councils, including Hampshire.
		Half those polled were supportive of a referenda on the establishment of a regional assembly but a referendum on a range of issues including regional government was the least strongly supported option compared with other constitutional issues
		The Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill will allow the Government to order that a referendum should be held in a region on whether that region should have an elected assembly - if there is evidence that there is sufficient interest in the referendum.
	www.hants.gov.uk /press/2003/d516regionalism.html (680 words)

	Committee Report: . Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill - Soundings Exercise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is the Government’s intention, by introducing the Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill, to provide the opportunity for at least one region to hold a referendum about establishing an elected assembly during this Parliament.
		The Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill currently before Parliament makes provision for the Secretary of State to order referendums to be held in any of the English regions outside London and to direct the Boundary Committee for England to conduct a local government review.
		The effects of a review on the two-tier local authorities in the region (taken as a whole) are likely to vary between regions, for example, because of differences in the number and population of such authorities in each region.
	www.wiganmbc.gov.uk /pub/council/agendas200203/cabinet/020103/report21.htm (2212 words)

	BBC - Press Office - On the Record, regional assemblies
		· limit the role of the regional assemblies so that they will largely be strategic and advisory in function.
		Assemblies will only have between 25 and 35 members and they will have far fewer powers than, for example, the Welsh Assembly.
		· insist that before a referendum on regional government is held, the electoral commission will have to come up with proposals to abolish one tier of local government in that region.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/05_may/05/regional_assemblies.shtml (557 words)

	New Statesman: Blair counts the counties out: The creation of new regional assemblies — toothless, partially ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If, as a result, some regions end up with assemblies while others do not a new asymmetry will be created, compounding the original constitutional imbalance that the scheme is supposed to be rectifying.
		These exciting new, directly elected assemblies are not, it turns out, to be quite as directly elected as we had been led to believe.
		Regional assemblies are now, apparently, to include a substantial number of appointed "community representatives", who will sit alongside directly elected members and exercise full voting powers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4578_131/ai_84304078 (1256 words)

	Observer \| What are regional assemblies for?
		The regional dimension is increasingly being seen as central to the pursuit of 'joined-up governance'.
		But the most important argument made in favour of regional assemblies - that it would help close the 'North-South' divide - is both the most ambitious and, perhaps, the most uncertain at this stage.
		However, the regional institutions required do not necessarily have to be democratically elected and it would be quite consistent for the Government to decide that the creation of Regional Development Authorities provided sufficient regional decision-making capacity.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4696525-102273,00.html (817 words)

	Regional chambers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Voluntary, multi-party and inclusive Regional Chambers have been established in each of the eight English regions outside London, building on the partnership working arrangements that already existed in some regions between local authorities and regional partners.
		The Regional Chambers' initial focus was primarily on the RDAs' regional economic strategies, in respect of which the RDAs are directed, under the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998, to consult the Chambers.
		The Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act, which received Royal Assent on 8 May 2003, gave Chambers the responsibility to act as the regional planning bodies for the new system of regional spatial strategies, as encouraged in Planning Policy Guidance Note 11.
	www.odpm.gov.uk /stellent/groups/odpm_regions/documents/page/odpm_regions_607885.hcsp (574 words)

	BRITAIN APPEALS
		The self-appointed and otherwise nominated members of the Regional Assemblies are, in the main, a group of anti nation state subversives’.
		The plan is for each of the 111 already-mapped-out regions of the European Union each to send a total of four representatives to the Euro Committee of the Regions in Brussels.
		Integral to the Regional Assembly plan is the abolition of the Counties, and their replacement by unitary authorities.
	www.freewebs.com /britainappeals/regionalisation.htm (2739 words)

	United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1999, the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales were established, the former having primary legislative power.
		Each region is made up of counties and unitary authorities, apart from London, which consists of London boroughs.
		Although at one point it was intended that each or some of these regions would be given its own regional assembly, the plan's future is uncertain, as of 2004, after the North East region rejected its proposed assembly in a referendum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Kingdom (3642 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society \| Regional assemblies to close 'democratic deficit'
		In the areas where the assemblies are set up county councils and district councils will be replaced by unitary authorities.
		The assembly members will be elected by a system of proportional representation, with each area having between 25 and 30 members.
		He said: "Regional quangos make hundreds of decisions and spend phenomenal sums of money, but they are accountable only to Whitehall, not to the people they serve.
	society.guardian.co.uk /regionalgovernment/story/0,8150,712634,00.html (614 words)

	Read about Regional Assemblies in England at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Regional Assemblies in England and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		District councils and Unitary authorities in each Region, the remaining one-third are representatives of other regional interest groups.
		Three such referendums were planned, for the regions of North East and
		House of Commons he would not move orders for the other two regions within the effective time limit of June, 2005 permitted by the Act.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Regional_Assemblies (410 words)

	Christian News, Updated Daily - Christian Today > Archbishop of York Questions Regional Assemblies
		The Archbishop stated that he had “serious reservations” with regards to regional assemblies being set up, saying that his main concern was the threat of “increasing bureaucracy”, plus the worry that voters would be the ones left paying the bills in establishing the new body.
		The Yorkshire Post demanded that ahead of a referendum on the issue — which the Government is expected to call for November 4th — the MP should disclose an accurate role and budget for the assembly, the mechanics for the running of the referendum campaign and the voting methods to be used.
		The Archbishop was not completely against the entire idea of a regional assembly, and he expressed the fact that there is a “coherence” about the county of Yorkshire which meant it could in fact “make sense” for a regional assembly to be created.
	www.christiantoday.com /news/church/archbishop.of.york.questions.regional.assemblies/132.htm (698 words)

	Press Release: Regional assemblies must not suck powers from local people
		If regional assemblies are to be set up anywhere in the country, they must enhance democracy and local administration, not muddy it, says the Local Government Association.
		Sir Jeremy Beecham, Chair of the Local Government Association, said: “There are mixed views in the LGA as to the benefits of regional assemblies and it is important that those differences are reflected in any process that may lead to more regional government.
		But elected regional assemblies, where they are wanted, could strongly enhance democracy in this country and help the planning and delivery of public services.
	www.lga.gov.uk /PressRelease.asp?lsection=0&id=SXBDFF-A7813529 (476 words)

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