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Lord Chancellors Dept

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Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department on what basis decisions were made on the location of Legal Services Commission offices; and what population number is served by each office. [89562] Ms Rosie Winterton: The locations of the individual offices of the Legal Services Commission are for the commission to determine. Offices are, in general, located in either the major town or city in each region as detailed in the table. The number, location and size of the regional offices have been reviewed on several occasions, most recently in August 1998. With the exception of the head office buildings in London, each of the commission's offices is sited within a region (locations denoted in brackets next to the regions in the table). In England, the commission's regional boundaries match those of the Government Offices for the English Regions, with the exception of Merseyside for which there is no separate Government Office. The commission also has an office covering Wales. Based on figures from the 2001 census, the population numbers served by each region and Wales, are as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number East Midlands (Nottingham) 4,172,179 Eastern (Cambridge) 5,388,154 London (London) 7,172,036 Merseyside (Liverpool) 1,362,034 North East (Newcastle) 2,515,479 North Western (Manchester) 5,367,766 South East (Brighton and Reading) 8,000,550 South Western (Bristol) 4,928,458 West Midlands (Birmingham) 5,267,337 Yorkshire and Humberside (Leeds) 4,964,838 Wales (Cardiff) 2,903,085 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

89562; 397 c478-9W;397 c476-7W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Legal Services Commission Location Staff Offices

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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