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Regional Ministers: Visits
Mrs. May:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many official visits regional Ministers have made to each constituency in the area for which they are responsible. [192828]
Hazel Blears:
Constituencies visited by regional Ministers (in this capacity) are set out as follows. Due to the role of regional Minister, which involves regional or sub-regional meetings, the Minister usually attends a meeting held in that area rather than visiting a constituency per se. The following information is correct up to and including 7 March 2008.
| The Minister for the South East |
| Constituency | Number of visits |
|
Aylesbury
|
1
|
|
Buckingham
|
1
|
|
Dover
|
1
|
|
Folkestone and Hythe
|
1
|
|
Gillingham
|
1
|
|
Guildford
|
1
|
|
Hastings
|
1
|
|
Lewes
|
1
|
|
Maidstone and the Weald
|
1
|
|
Mole Valley
|
1
|
|
New Forest West
|
1
|
|
North East Hampshire
|
1
|
|
North West Hampshire
|
2
|
|
Oxford East
|
1
|
|
Portsmouth South
|
2
|
|
Reading East
|
1
|
|
Reading West
|
2
|
|
Thanet South
|
1
|
|
Tonbridge and Malling
|
1
|
|
Wantage
|
1
|
|
Winchester
|
1
|
| The Minister for the East of England |
| Constituency | Number of visits |
|
Bury St. Edmunds
|
1
|
|
Cambridge
|
1
|
|
Great Yarmouth
|
1
|
|
Ipswich
|
1
|
|
Norwich South
|
1
|
|
Peterborough
|
2
|
|
South Cambridgeshire
|
4
|
|
Stevenage
|
2
|
|
Waveney
|
2
|
|
West Suffolk
|
2
|
|
South East Cambs
|
3
|
| The Minister for the South West |
| Constituency | Number of visits |
|
Bournemouth East
|
1
|
|
Bournemouth West
|
1
|
|
Bristol North West
|
1
|
|
Bristol West
|
1
|
|
Cheltenham
|
1
|
|
Devon South West
|
1
|
|
Exeter
|
4
|
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|
Gloucester
|
1
|
|
Plymouth Devonport
|
2
|
|
Poole
|
1
|
|
South East Cornwall
|
1
|
|
Swindon South
|
1
|
|
Taunton
|
2
|
|
Tewkesbury
|
1
|
|
Truro and St. Austell
|
1
|
|
Westbury
|
1
|
| The Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Constituency | Number of visits |
|
Rosie Winterton from 27 January
| |
|
Doncaster Central
|
1
|
|
City of York
|
2
|
|
Leeds Central
|
4
|
|
Morley and Rothwell
|
1
|
|
Wakefield
|
1
|
|
Wentworth
|
1
|
|
Bradford West
|
1
|
|
Bradford North
|
1
|
| | |
|
Caroline Flint to 2 July 2007 to 26 January 2008
| |
|
Barnsley Central
|
1
|
|
Bradford West
|
1
|
|
City of York
|
1
|
|
Don Valley
|
4
|
|
Doncaster Central
|
2
|
|
Doncaster North
|
1
|
|
Hull North
|
2
|
|
Hull West and Hessle
|
1
|
|
Leeds Central
|
3
|
|
Rydale
|
1
|
|
Scarborough and Whitby
|
1
|
|
Wakefield
|
2
|
| The Minister for the East Midlands |
| Constituency | Number of visits |
|
Gillian Merron to 26 January 2008
| |
|
Lincoln
|
2
|
|
Louth and Horncastle
|
1
|
|
Leicester West
|
1
|
|
Leicester South
|
1
|
|
North West Leicestershire
|
1
|
|
Rushcliffe
|
1
|
|
Sherwood
|
1
|
|
Newark
|
1
|
|
Nottingham East
|
2
|
|
Nottingham South
|
4
|
|
Boston and Skegness
|
1
|
|
Derby South
|
2
|
|
Corby
|
1
|
|
Kettering
|
1
|
|
Northampton South
|
1
|
|
Grantham and Stamford
|
1
|
|
Leicester East
|
1
|
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|
Phil Hope from 26 January 2008
| |
|
Corby
|
1
|
| The Minister for the North West |
| Constituency | Number of visits |
|
Blackburn
|
1
|
|
Bolton South East
|
1
|
|
Bootle
|
1
|
|
Burnley
|
1
|
|
Ellesmere Port and Neston
|
1
|
|
Fylde
|
1
|
|
Knowsley South
|
1
|
|
Liverpool Riverside
|
3
|
|
Liverpool Walton
|
1
|
|
Liverpool West Derby
|
1
|
|
Manchester Central
|
5
|
|
Penrith and The Border
|
1
|
|
Preston
|
3
|
|
Salford
|
3
|
|
St. Helens North
|
1
|
|
Warrington South
|
1
|
|
Westmorland and Lonsdale
|
1
|
Note:
Some of the regional Minister for the North West’s meetings have taken place in her office base at Government office for the north-west, situated in the Manchester Central constituency.
|
| The Minister for London |
| Constituency | Number of visits |
|
Cities of London and Westminster
|
7
|
|
Croydon Central
|
1
|
|
Hammersmith and Fulham
|
1
|
|
Hendon
|
1
|
|
Hornsey and Wood Green
|
1
|
|
North Southwark and Bermondsey
|
2
|
|
West Ham
|
1
|
| The Minister for the West Midlands |
| Constituency | Number of visits |
|
Birmingham Ladywood
|
4
|
|
Birmingham Northfield
|
1
|
|
Bromyard
|
1
|
|
Coventry North East
|
1
|
|
Coventry South
|
1
|
|
Ludlow
|
1
|
|
Newcastle-under-Lyme
|
1
|
|
North Warwickshire
|
3
|
|
Stoke on Trent Central
|
2
|
|
Stratford on Avon
|
1
|
|
Telford
|
2
|
|
West Bromwich East
|
1
|
|
West Worcestershire
|
1
|
|
Wolverhampton South East
|
2
|
