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Many large local government
Local government

Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a state. The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government....
 councils
Local government in the United Kingdom

The pattern of local government in England is complex, with the distribution of functions varying according to the local arrangements. Legislation concerning local government in England is decided by the Parliament of the United Kingdom and Government of the United Kingdom, because England does not have a devolved English parliament....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 have a system of area committees, with responsibility for services in a particular part of the area covered by the council.

In the county council
County council

A County council is the elected administrative body governing an area known as a county. This term has slightly different meanings in different countries....
 areas of England
England

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, for example, there is typically an area committee for each district
Districts of England

The districts of England are a level of Subdivisions of England used for the purposes of local government. As the structure of local government in England is not uniform, there are currently four types of district level subdivision....
 within the county.








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Many large local government
Local government

Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a state. The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government....
 councils
Local government in the United Kingdom

The pattern of local government in England is complex, with the distribution of functions varying according to the local arrangements. Legislation concerning local government in England is decided by the Parliament of the United Kingdom and Government of the United Kingdom, because England does not have a devolved English parliament....
 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 have a system of area committees, with responsibility for services in a particular part of the area covered by the council.

In the county council
County council

A County council is the elected administrative body governing an area known as a county. This term has slightly different meanings in different countries....
 areas of England
England

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, for example, there is typically an area committee for each district
Districts of England

The districts of England are a level of Subdivisions of England used for the purposes of local government. As the structure of local government in England is not uniform, there are currently four types of district level subdivision....
 within the county.

Examples


  • In England
    England

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    :
    • Birmingham
      Birmingham

      Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....
       - district committees for 11 areas similar to Birmingham's parliamentary constituencies.
    • Bradford
      City of Bradford

      City of Bradford is a Local government in England of West Yorkshire, England, with the status of a metropolitan borough and a city status in the United Kingdom....
       - has 5 area committees made up of the wards that (roughly) make up the 5 parliamentary constituencies
      United Kingdom constituencies

      In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly....
       namely Bradford North
      Bradford North (UK Parliament constituency)

      Bradford North is a constituency represented in the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
      , Bradford South
      Bradford South (UK Parliament constituency)

      Bradford South is a borough constituency in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire. It elects one Member of Parliament to the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first past the post system of election....
      , Bradford West
      Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency)

      Bradford West is a borough constituency represented in the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
      , Keighley
      Keighley (UK Parliament constituency)

      Keighley is a constituency represented in the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
       and Shipley
      Shipley (UK Parliament constituency)

      Shipley is a county constituency represented in the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....
      .
Before the 2004 ward boundary review
Boundary Committee for England

The Boundary Committee for England is an independent body in England responsible for defining borders for local elections; and for conducting reviews of local government areas....
 the wards fitted exactly within the constituencies and the committees were therefore known as constituency committee
Constituency committee

In Birmingham, England, each Government of Birmingham, England#Council constituencies is managed by a Constituency Committee, made up of all the councillors for the ward in that constituency....
s.
    • Leicester
      Leicester

      Leicester is a city status in the United Kingdom and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England. It is the county town of Leicestershire....
       - 9 area committees containing between 2 and 3 wards. The city centre is considered outside any area.
    • Kirklees
      Kirklees

      The Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 401,000 and includes the settlements of Batley, Birstall, West Yorkshire, Cleckheaton, Denby Dale, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Kirkburton, Marsden, West Yorkshire, Meltham, Mirfield and Slaithwaite....
       - 7 area committees
    • Kingston upon Hull
      Kingston upon Hull

      Kingston upon Hull , almost invariably referred to as Hull, is a City status in the United Kingdom and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England....
       - 7 area committees
    • Oxford
      Oxford

      Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
       - 6 area committees


  • In Scotland
    Scotland

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    :
    • Aberdeenshire
      Aberdeenshire

      Aberdeenshire is one of the 32 unitary authority council areas in Scotland.In this present day Aberdeenshire does not include Aberdeen City which is a Council Area in its own right....
       council has devolved power to six area committees:
      • Banff & Buchan
      • Buchan
        Buchan

        Buchan is one of the six committee areas and administrative areas of Aberdeenshire Council, Scotland. These areas were created by the council in 1996, when the Aberdeenshire Council areas of Scotland was created under the Local Government etc Act 1994....
      • Formartine
        Formartine

        Formartine is a committee area in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This district has a long history and extends north from the River Don, Aberdeenshire....
      • Garioch
        Garioch

        The Garioch is the name of one of six committee areas in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The "och" at the end of the word is silent and so the word as a whole is generally pronounced /'gee-ree/....
      • Marr
        Marr

        Marr is one of six committee areas in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, bordering Atholl, Badenoch, Gowrie, The Mearns, Banffshire and Buchan. It has a population of 34,038 ....
      • Kincardine & Mearns
    • Argyll and Bute
      Argyll and Bute

      Argyll and Bute is both one of 32 Council areas of Scotland; and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland in Scotland. The administrative centre for the council area is located in Lochgilphead....
       - 4 area committees:
      • Bute
        Isle of Bute

        Bute, also known as the Isle of Bute is one of the islands of the lower Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Formerly part of the Counties of Scotland of Buteshire, it now constitutes part of the council area of Argyll and Bute....
         & Cowal
        Cowal

        Cowal is a peninsula in Argyll and Bute in the ScotlandScottish Highlands. The northern part of Cowal is mostly the mountainous Argyll Forest Park....
      • Helensburgh
        Helensburgh

        Helensburgh is a town and former burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde and the eastern shore of the entrance to the Gare Loch....
         & Lomond
        Loch Lomond

        Loch Lomond , is a freshwater Scotland loch, lying on the Highland Boundary Fault. It is the largest lake in mainland Britain, by surface area, and contains many islands, including Inchmurrin, the largest fresh water island in the British Isles....
      • Mid Argyll, Kintyre
        Kintyre

        Kintyre is a peninsula in western Scotland, in the south-west of Argyll and Bute. The region stretches approximately 30 miles , from the Mull of Kintyre in the south, to East Loch Tarbert, Kintyre in the north....
         & Islay
        Islay

        Islay , a Scotland island, known as "The Queen of the Hebrides" , is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides. It lies in Argyll just to the west of Jura, Scotland and around north of the Irish coast, which can be seen on a clear day....
      • Oban
        Oban

        Oban is a resort town within the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland. It has a total resident population of 8,120. Despite its small size, it is the largest town between Helensburgh and Fort William, Highland and during the tourist season the town can be crowded by up to 25,000 people....
        , Lorn
        Lorn

        Lorn may refer to:* John Lorn McDougall , Ontario businessman and political figure* John Lorn McDougall, Sr. , businessman and political figure in Canada West...
         & Mull
        Isle of Mull

        The Isle of Mull or simply Mull is the second largest island of the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland in the Council areas of Scotland of Argyll and Bute....
    • Dumfries and Galloway
      Dumfries and Galloway

      Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. To the north, it borders onto South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire; in the east the Scottish Borders; and to the south the county of Cumbria in England....
       - 4 area committees:
      • Annandale and Eskdale
        Annandale and Eskdale

        Annandale and Eskdale is a committee area in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It covers the areas of Annandale and Eskdale, Dumfries and Galloway, the straths of the River Annan and the River Esk, Dumfriesshire respectively....
      • Nithsdale
        Nithsdale

        Nithsdale , also known by its anglicised gaelic name Strathnith or Stranit. It is possible that Strath Nid actually represents the Cumbric Ystrad Nidd as Cumbric was the dominant language in this area from before Roman times until the 11th or 12th Century whereas Gaelic influence here was late and transient....
      • Stewartry
        Stewartry

        Stewartry is a committee area in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.It was formerly one of four Local government in Scotland districts in the Dumfries and Galloway Region of Scotland....
      • Wigtown
        Wigtown

        Wigtown is a town and former royal burgh in the Machars of Galloway in the south west of Scotland , south of Newton Stewart and east of Stranraer....
    • East Ayrshire
      East Ayrshire

      East Ayrshire is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders onto North Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, South Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway....
       - 7 area committees:
      • Northern
      • Kilmarnock
        Kilmarnock

        Kilmarnock is a large burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland, with a population of 44,170. It is roughly equidistant between Glasgow and Ayr, and is the second largest town in Ayrshire....
         North
      • Kilmarnock Central
      • Kilmarnock South
      • Irvine Valley
        Irvine Valley

        Irvine Valley may refer to:*Irvine Valley College, California, USA*Loudoun, Scotland...
      • Cumnock
        Cumnock

        Cumnock is a town in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The town sits at the confluence of the Glaisnock Water and the Lugar Water. There are three neighbouring housing projects which lie just outside the town boundaries, Netherthird, Craigens and Logan, East Ayrshire, with the former ironworks settlement of Lugar, East Ayrshire also just outside the...
         Area
      • Doon Valley
        Doon Valley

        Doon Valley is a valley located in Sivalik Hills in Uttarakhand, India, home to the capital of Indian state of Uttarakhand, Dehradun....
    • Glasgow
      Glasgow

      Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's Scottish Lowlands....
       - 11 area committees :
      • Bishops Wood
        Bishops Wood

        Bishop's Wood, Bishops Wood, or Bishopswood is a small village on the Staffordshire border with Shropshire. It is home to the Royal Oak public house, the first to be named after the nearby Royal Oak at Boscobel House in which Charles II of England Escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester....
      • Central
      • Drumchapel and West
      • East (centre)
      • East
      • North
      • North West
      • South
      • South East
      • South West
      • West End
    • Highland
      Highland (council area)

      The Highland Council areas of Scotland area is a local government area in the Scottish Highlands and the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom as a whole....
      :
      • In 1996, the then new unitary Highland Council adopted the areas of the eight districts of the former two-tier Highland region as management areas, and each management area was represented, initially, by area committees consisting of councillors elected from areas (groups of wards) corresponding to the management areas, but changes to ward boundaries in 1999 created a mismatch between committee areas and management areas. In 2007, following further changes to ward boundaries, the area committees were abolished and the council created a new more centralised management structure. The former districts were: Badenoch and Strathspey, Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Nairn, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh, and Sutherland
    • Scottish Borders
      Scottish Borders

      The Scottish Borders , often referred to simply as the Borders, is one of 32 local government Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the Metropolitan and non-metropolit...
       :
      • Berwickshire
        Berwickshire

        Berwickshire or the County of Berwick is a registration county, a committee area of the Scottish Borders Council, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland of Scotland, on the border with England....
      • Eildon
        Eildon

        Eildon is the largest committee area of the Scottish Borders Council, with a population of 34,892 at the latest UK census 2001....
      • Tweeddale
        Tweeddale

        Tweeddale is a committee area and Lieutenancy areas of Scotland in the Scotland Scottish Borders. With a population of 17,394 at the latest UK census 2001 it is the second smallest of the 5 committee areas in the Borders....
      • Cheviot
        Cheviot

        Cheviot can refer to one of several places:*The Cheviot Hills, on the borders of England and Scotland*The town of Cheviot, New Zealand*The City of Cheviot, OH...
      • Teviot
        River Teviot

        The River Teviot is a river of the Scottish Borders, and rises in the western foothills of Comb Hill on the border of Dumfries and Galloway. It flows north-eastwards through Teviotdale and past Teviothead, Hawick and Roxburgh before joining the River Tweed to the southwest of Kelso, Scottish Borders....
         and Liddesdale
        Liddesdale

        Liddesdale, the valley of the Liddel Water, in the Roxburghshire, southern Scotland, extends in a south-westerly direction from the vicinity of Peel Fell to the River Esk, Dumfries and Galloway, a distance of ....
  • In Wales
    Wales

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    :
    • Gwynedd
      Gwynedd

      Gwynedd is a Administrative divisions of Wales in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although one of the biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated....
       - area committees for Arfon
      Arfon

      Arfon was one of five Districts of Waless of Gwynedd, Wales, from 1974 to 1996.It was created by the Local Government Act 1972 on April 1, 1974 from part of the administrative county of Caernarvonshire, namely the municipal boroughs of Bangor, Wales and Caernarfon, the Bethesda, Wales urban district, the rural districts of Ogwen Rural Dist...
      , Dwyfor
      Dwyfor

      See also Earl Lloyd George of DwyforSee also Dwyfor Meirionnydd 'Dwyfor' was one of the five Districts of Waless of Gwynedd, Wales from 1974 to 1996, covering the Llyn peninsula....
      , Meirionnydd
      Meirionnydd

      Meirionnydd is a coastal and mountainous region of north Wales. It has been a monarchy, a cantref, a Districts of Wales and, as Merionethshire, a county....
       - the former districts
      Districts of Wales

      In 1974, Wales was re-divided for local government in the United Kingdom purposes into thirty-seven districts. Districts were the second tier of local government introduced by the Local Government Act 1972, being subdivisions of the eight Administrative divisions of Wales#Counties introduced at the same time....
      .
    • Monmouthshire
      Monmouthshire

      Monmouthshire is a principal area in south east Wales. The name derives from the historic county of Monmouthshire which covers a larger area....
       - four area committees
    • Powys
      Powys

      Powys is a local-government Principal areas of Wales and preserved counties of Wales in Wales....
       - area committees for Brecknockshire
      Brecknockshire

      Brecknockshire , also known as the County of Brecknock, Breconshire, or the County of Brecon is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales of Wales, and a former administrative county....
      , Montgomeryshire
      Montgomeryshire

      Montgomeryshire, also known as Maldwyn is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county of Wales. It is named after one of William the Conqueror's main counsellors, Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who was the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury....
       and Radnorshire
      Radnorshire

      Radnorshire is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales and former administrative counties of Wales. It is represented by the Radnorshire area of Powys, which according to the 2001 census, had a population of 24,805....
      .