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There are currently 22 principal areas (styled as a county or a county borough) in Wales, with the current configuration established in the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, enacted on 1 April 1996, while the framework was established earlier in the Local Government Act 1972. Like community councils, they are composed of councillors.
Welsh Government Eluned Morgan government ... Local government. Principal councils ... This is a list of the 22 principal areas of Wales [1] [2] ...
The later Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 restructured local government, by significantly amending the previous act. The councils of the principal areas are generally supervised by the Welsh Government. [1] [3] The names of the principal areas, in both English and Welsh, are set out in the 1994 amended version of the 1972 act, under Schedule 4.
There are 22 principal areas of Wales.They were established on 1 April 1996 by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (1994 c. 19). Eleven are styled "counties", including the cities of Cardiff and Swansea, and eleven are styled "county boroughs", including the cities of Newport and Wrexham.
The 2022 Welsh local elections took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members of all twenty-two local authorities in Wales. They were held alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom. The previous elections were held in 2017. The Welsh Conservatives lost over a third of their seats and their majority on Monmouthshire County Council. [1]
From 1889 to 1974, counties made up of administrative counties and county boroughs were used for local government purposes. The counties were created by the Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), which applied without distinction across Wales and England, and in Wales the administrative counties were based on the historic counties of Wales, but they were not entirely identical.
According to finance expert Guto Ifan, from Cardiff University, Welsh government budget documents say spending is increasing by £959m in 2025-26, or 2% in real terms - where inflation is taken ...
Pages in category "Local authorities of Wales" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...