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	Subdivisions of England information - Search.com
		England is divided by the Lieutenancies Act 1997 into areas for the appointment of Lord-Lieutenants, who are historically the Crown's representative in a county.
		Unitary authorities were created in the 1990s and are single-tier authorities which combine the functions of county and district councils.
		As part of the referendum, voters were to be asked to choose which system of unitary authorities they would like to see in the existing county council areas if the regional assembly was approved.
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	Subdivisions of England - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Non-unitary authorities are administrative counties with a two-tier structure, consisting of a county council and a number of district councils.
		Unitary authorities are single-tier authorities, combining the functions of county and district councils.
		The council of a unitary authority is referred to as a "district council", "borough council", "county council", "city council", "metropolitan borough council" or "council", depending upon various factors.
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	Unitary authority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A unitary authority is a type of local authority, which has a single-tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area.
		Typically unitary authorities cover large towns or cities, which are large enough to be independent of county or regional administration.
		In New Zealand a unitary authority is a territorial authority (district or city) which also performs the functions of a regional council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unitary_authority (741 words)

	Subdivisions of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unitary authorities were created in the 1990s and are single-tier authorities which combine the functions of county and district councils.
		In Greater London the 32 London borough councils have a similar status to the unitary authorities, although the Greater London Authority exists to coordinate their activities.
		As part of the referendum, voters were to be asked to choose which system of unitary authorities they would like to see in the existing county council areas if the regional assembly was approved.
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	England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		England comprises most of the southern half of the island of Great Britain, bordered to the north by Scotland and to the west by Wales.
		According to the 2001 census the population of England was 49,138,831.
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	Unitary authority: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Unitary authority
		Unitary authority is a term used in the United Kingdom for a local government body which forms a single tier of administration.
		The area administered by a unitary authority is called a "unitary authority area" or sometimes a "unitary district".
		A unitary authority in New Zealand refers to a territorial authority (district or city) which does not have an encompassing regional council.
	www.encyclopedian.com /un/Unitary-authority.html (163 words)

	Administrative counties of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Most of the powers that they used to have have devolved to their metropolitan boroughs, which are now in effect unitary authorities, however some functions such as emergency services, civil defence, and public transport are still run jointly on a metropolitan county wide basis.
		The report proposed that most of England the two-tier structure be abolished, and replaced with a system of 58 unitary authories, which would generally ignore the previous administrative boundaries in favour of changes that made geographic sense - a total redrawing of the map.
		This scrapped the concept of unitary authorities (even for existing county boroughs) — the entire area of England and Wales was to be divided into uniform counties and districts.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/administrative_counties_of_england (1846 words)

	UNITARY AUTHORITY FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A unitary authority is a type of local_authority, which has a single-tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area.
		When county_councils were first established in 1889, a type of unitary authority was created called a County_Borough which was independent of county council administration.
		In the United_States an Independent_city is roughly equivalent to a unitary authority.
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	Local_government_in_the_United_Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The three consistently use a pattern of unitary authorities meaning there is a single tier of local government.
		Scottish authorities are chosen at the same time as elections to the Scottish Parliament; Welsh authorities are elected the year after the Welsh Assembly elections.
		The most populated unitary authority area is Birmingham (a metropolitan borough) with 977,087 people (2001 census), and the least populated (normal) one is Rutland with 34,563.
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	ONS coding system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Output Areas are the smallest unit for which census data is published - they contain at least 40 households (preferably 100), and are built up from postcode blocks AFTER the census data is available with a view to being socially as homogeneous as possible.
		The authority and ward codes are recognised by Eurostat as Local administrative unit code levels 1 & 2 within the NUTS system.
		Unitary authorities - Yorkshire and the Humber region
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	Unitary authority - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The borders of the original administrative county are adjusted to exclude the unitary authority area.
		In common usage unitary authority areas are not usually referred to as counties, although there are exceptions such as the unitary authority of county of Herefordshire, which along with Rutland was a reinstatement of an administrative county lost in the 1974 reorganisation, and the road signs of Herefordshire now refer to it as a county.
		In some cases, such as the boroughs of the metropolitan counties and Berkshire the unitary authorities are not legally counties in their own right, but have instead had all functions transferred to them and the county council has been abolished.
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	Collieries & Coal Authorities in the UK
		Collieries & Coal Authorities in Isle of Cumbrae
		Collieries & Coal Authorities in Isle of Wight
		Collieries & Coal Authorities in Isles of Scilly
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	North West England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North West England is one of the regions of England.
		However, when the North East region of England recently rejected having an elected regional assembly in a referendum, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott subsequently announced that he will not move orders for other referendums.
		The proposals for elected regional assemblies in England therefore are on hold.
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	Unitary authorities (from England) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		England currently contains 46 administrative units called unitary authorities, so named because, unlike administrative counties, they are not subdivided into districts, boroughs, or cities but instead constitute a single tier of local government.
		Unitary authorities are responsible for all the administrative functions of both administrative counties and…;
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	unitary authority
		In 1997 13 further unitary authorities were established, and 19 in 1998, making a total of 46 unitary authorities in England, in addition to the existing London and Metropolitan boroughs, which already had unitary powers.
		The Isle of Wight became a unitary authority in 1995.
		The act also abolished the counties and their districts in Wales, creating 22 unitary authorities in their place from 1996, and abolished the regional councils and their districts in Scotland, creating 29 new unitary authorities from 1996, making a total of 32.
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	Articles - Geography of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		England: Unitary Authorities, county councils, district councils, parish councils
		Unitary authorities were formed across the entire of Scotland and Wales, and in larger cities in England.
		Almost one-third of the population lives in England's prosperous and fertile southeast and is predominantly urban and suburban, with about 7.2 million in the capital of London.
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	Geography - counties, non-metropolitan districts and unitary authorities
		In 1974 a two-tier administrative structure of (shire) counties and non-metropolitan districts was set up across the whole of England and Wales, except for the Isles of Scilly, Greater London and the six metropolitan counties.
		The key feature of this change was the introduction of unitary authorities, single-tier administrations with responsibility for all areas of local government.
		Note that this district total includes the Isles of Scilly, which has a unitary council but is considered as a district of the county of 'Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly' for coding purposes.
	www.statistics.gov.uk /geography/counties_nonmet_ua.asp (307 words)

	UK Parliament - clomps
		Members of Parliament by county or unitary authority
		The County List is very difficult to derive in any definitive form because of the boundary changes and the establishment of unitary authorities (which are not in any county for local government purposes).
		Unitary authorities are listed under the counties that they were listed under at the time of the Boundary Commission review and prior to the restructuring of local government between 1995 and 1998.
	www.parliament.uk /directories/hciolists/clomps.cfm (139 words)

	East of England unitary authorities NUTS Peterborough Suffolk Density Statistics Norfolk Southend-on-Sea East of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		East of England is one of the official regions of England.
		The new regions are not yet widely understood or used by the general public, and the "East of England" as an administrative concept is not widely familiar to the public, which is more likely to understand the traditional designations of East Anglia and the South East.
		The East of England Innovation Relay Centre is one of a network of IRCs throughout Europe with the goal of promoting the transfer of innovative technologies across European borders.
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	Unitary authority - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Unitary authority - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In some small English counties such as Rutland and Herefordshire, the county council is a unitary authority without any districts.
		Unitary authority, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, History, Creation of unitary authorities and United States.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Unitary_authorities_in_England (713 words)

	Unitary authority : Unitary authorities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Unitary authority is a term used in the United Kingdom for a local government body whichforms a single tier of administration.
		A unitary authority in New Zealand refers to a territorial authority (district or city) which doesn't have an encompassing regional council.
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	www.termsdefined.net /un/unitary-authorities.html (213 words)

	UNITARY AUTHORITIES
		The Subdivisions of Scotland form the local government areas of Scotland, all of them unitary authorities, as used by government and defined in law.
		The Unitary Authorities of are the subdivisions of Wales, United Kingdom.
		In common usage unitary authority areas are not usually refered to as counties, although there are exceptions such as the unitary authority of Herefordshire, which along with Rutland was a reinstatement of an administrative county lost in the 1974 reorganisation, and the road signs of Herefordshire now refer to it as a county.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/UNITARY+AUTHORITIES (662 words)

	House of Commons Standing Cttee on Delegated Legislation (pt 1)
		It is open to all local authorities in England to assist them to set up waste minimisation and recycling initiatives to meet their statutory recycling targets for this and the coming financial year and the UK's wider obligations under the landfill directive.
		It is distributed to transport authorities—county councils, passenger transport authorities and unitary authorities—in England according to a formula based on the numbers living outside areas where there are settlements of 3,000 or more people.
		Thirdly, the rural bus challenge is an annual competition in which local authorities bid for funding for projects aimed at stimulating innovation in the provision and promotion of rural public transport, improving quality and choice throughout the country.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200203/cmstand/deleg1/st030506/30506s01.htm (2012 words)

	Local Authorities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Initial views from local authorities and others have been sought and have now been received by the Boundary Committee in the first of a five stage process which will culminate in their recommendations for two or more options for unitary authorities in May 2004.
		The Defra view is that the creation of larger, mixed urban/rural unitaries may risk losing sight of rural interests while smaller authorities may struggle to deliver the full service agenda.
		A research report has recently been published by the Countryside Agency on characteristics of successful rural unitary authorities in England, Scotland and Wales, which aims to help inform the development of options for new unitary authorities in regions which vote for elected regional assemblies (can be downloaded from 'Related documents' box on top right).
	countryside.gov.uk /vitalvillages/local_governance/local_government.asp (410 words)

	From workhorse to thoroughbred: a better role for bus travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Local authorities could use the grant to support buses and other public transport services, including ferry and rail, to meet the needs of the more remote and island communities.
		The Government thinks it right that local authorities should decide themselves if they wish to offer more, as they are then answerable to their local electorate for that decision.
		We are keen to encourage local authorities and others concerned with school travel to think as broadly as possible about the issues in the context of local transport plans and strategies.
	www.dft.gov.uk /stellent/groups/dft_localtrans/documents/page/dft_localtrans_503851-05.hcsp (2177 words)

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