Annex A – Sub-regional contract areas
The following table identifies the sub-regional contract areas which in each region and the Local
Authority boundaries within which they will operate.
Sub-Regional Contract
areas by Region
North West
Cumbria
Lancashire
Local Authorities
Greater Merseyside
Cheshire
Cumbria
Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool,
Wigan, Manchester, Tameside, Salford, Trafford, Stockport, Rochdale,
Bolton, Oldham, Bury
Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral
Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire East, Warrington
West Midlands
Shropshire, Staffordshire
Black Country
Birmingham and Solihull
Coventry and Warwickshire
Hereford and Worcester
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent
Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley
Birmingham, Solihull
Coventry, Warwickshire
Herefordshire, Worcestershire
Greater Manchester
South West
Gloucestershire
Wiltshire, Swindon and
Dorset
Bristol, Bath and Somerset
Gloucestershire
Swindon, Wiltshire, Dorset, Poole, Bournemouth
Devon and Cornwall
Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset,
South Gloucestershire
Devon, Cornwall, Plymouth, Torbay
North East
Tyne and Wear and
Northumberland
County Durham and Tees
Valley
Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Newcastle, Sunderland,
Northumberland
County Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar &
Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees
Yorkshire and Humber
North Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
Humberside
South Yorkshire
East Midlands
Derbyshire
Nottinghamshire
Lincolnshire and Rutland
Leicestershire
Northamptonshire and Milton
Keynes
North Yorkshire, York
Calderdale, Bradford, Leeds, Kirklees, Wakefield
East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston Upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire,
North Lincolnshire
Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield
Derby, Derbyshire
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Lincolnshire, Rutland
Leicester, Leicestershire
Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes
East
Norfolk
Bedfordshire and
Cambridgeshire
Suffolk
Hertfordshire and Luton
Essex
London
London West
London North
London East
London South
South East
Oxfordshire,
Buckinghamshire and West
Berkshire
Surrey and Berkshire
Kent and Medway
Sussex
Hampshire
Norfolk
Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough
Suffolk
Hertfordshire, Luton
Essex, Southend, Thurrock
(Note: this sub-regional breakdown only applies to the Schools
STEM Advisory Network)
Hillingdon, Harrow, Brent, Ealing, Hounslow, Hammersmith and Fulham,
Richmond-Upon-Thames
Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Waltham Forest, Camden, Islington,
Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster
Hackney, Redbridge, Havering, Barking and Dagenham, Newham,
Tower Hamlets, City of London, Bexley, Greenwich, Lewisham
Kingston-Upon-Thames, Merton, Sutton, Croydon, Bromley, Lambeth,
Southwark, Wandsworth
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, West Berkshire
Surrey, Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead,
Wokingam
Kent, Medway
East Sussex, West Sussex, Brighton and Hove
Portsmouth, Southampton, Isle of Wight, Hampshire
Scotland
West of Scotland
North East Scotland
East Scotland
Highlands and Islands
Wales
Northern Ireland
Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East
Renfrewshire, Glasgow City, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, North
Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, West
Dunbartonshire
Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee City, Perth and Kinross
Falkirk, Fife, Stirling, Clackmannanshire, West Lothian, City of
Edinburgh, East Lothian, Mid Lothian, Scottish Borders
Highland, Argyll and Bute, Moray, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western
Isles), Orkney, Shetland
Isle of Anglesey, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Denbighshire, Gwynedd,
Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Pembroke, Powys, Rhondda Cynon
Taf, Blaenau Gwent, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Flintshire,
Monmouth, Newport, Swansea, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham,
Ynys Mon
Education and Library Boards: Belfast, North Eastern, South Eastern,
Southern, Western