Area committee

Many large local government councils in the United Kingdom 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 areas of England, for example, there is typically an area committee for each district within the county.

Examples

*In England:
**Birmingham - district committees for 11 areas similar to Birmingham's parliamentary constituencies.
**Bradford - has 5 area committees made up of the wards that (roughly) make up the 5 parliamentary constituencies namely Bradford North, Bradford South, Bradford West, Keighley and Shipley.::Before the 2004 ward boundary review the wards fitted exactly within the constituencies and the committees were therefore known as constituency committees.
**Leicester - 9 area committees containing between 2 and 3 wards. The city centre is considered outside any area.
**Kirklees - 7 area committees
**Kingston upon Hull - 7 area committees
**Oxford - 6 area committees
*In Scotland:
**Aberdeenshire council has devolved power to six area committees:
***Banff & Buchan
***Buchan
***Formartine
***Garioch
***Marr
***Kincardine & Mearns
**Dumfries and Galloway - 4 area committees:
***Annandale and Eskdale
***Nithsdale
***Stewartry
***Wigtown
**East Ayrshire - 7 area committees:
***Northern
***Kilmarnock North
***Kilmarnock Central
***Kilmarnock South
***Irvine Valley
***Cumnock Area
***Dooon Valley
**Glasgow - 11 area committees [1]:
***Bishops Wood
***Central
***Drumchapel and West
***East (centre)
***East
***North
***North West
***South
***South East
***South West
***West End
**Highland council has devolved power to 8 area committees:
***Caithness
***Sutherland
***Ross and Cromarty
***Skye and Lochalsh
***Lochaber
***Inverness
***Badenoch and Strathspey
***Nairn
**Scottish Borders [2]:
***Berwickshire
***Eildon
***Tweeddale
***Cheviot
***Teviot and Liddesdale
*In Wales:
**Gwynedd - area committees for Arfon, Dwyfor, Meirionnydd - the former districts.
**Powys - area committees for Brecknockshire, Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire..