Area Committee
Many of the local administrative units in England, Scotland and Wales, so far as their territory extends over a larger area or a high number of residents, this is divided into smaller units in which Area Committees are responsible for the organization of certain tasks in their area. They also have an advisory role for administrative decisions as it relates to their area. Their members are partly elected and partly seconded from the parent bodies.
England
In the areas of the county, both an Area Committee responsible for the area of each district in the rule. In the unitary authorities, which simultaneously represent indeed only one district, the allocation is based generally on the borders of municipalities, as Ward called, or to constituency boundaries.
Examples:
- Birmingham - 11 Area Committees for the area of the 11 parliamentary constituencies.
- Bradford -5 Area Committees, respectively, for the Wards that are (at least approximately) form a common constituency for the election.
- Leicester - 9 Area Committees for each 2 to 3 Wards. The downtown area does not belong to Area.
- Kirklees - 7 Area Committees
- Kingston upon Hull - 7 Area Committees
- Oxford - 6 Area Committees
Scotland
- Aberdeenshire - 6 Area Committees: Banff and Buchan
- Buchan
- Formartine
- Garioch
- Marr
- Kincardine and Mearns
- Argyll and Bute - 4 Area Committees: Bute & Cowal
- Helensburgh & Lomond
- Mid Argyll, Kintyre & Islay
- 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
- Doon Valley
- Glasgow - 11 Area Committees: Bishops Wood
- Central
- Drumchapel and West
- East ( center)
- East
- North
- Northwest
- South
- Southeast
- South West
- West End
- Highland: 5 Area Committees: Caithness and Sutherland Area Committee
- City of Inverness Area Committee
- Lochaber Area Committee
- Nairn and Badenoch and Strathspey Area Committee
- Skye, Ross and Cromarty Area Committee
- Scottish Borders - 5 Area Committees: Berwickshire
- Eildon
- Tweeddale
- Cheviot
- Teviot and Liddesdale
Wales
- Gwynedd - 's Area Committees for Arfon, Dwyfor, Meirionnydd - former districts.
- Monmouthshire - four Area Committees
- Powys - own Area Committees for Brecknockshire, Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire.