Guidance

Delivery geographies (2022-2025)

Updated 13 December 2024

England

In England, the fund will primarily operate over the strategic geographies of the Mayoral Combined Authorities and the Greater London Authority, and lower tier or unitary authorities elsewhere. In the section below, text in bold denotes a lead authority for UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) purposes.

Note - the Multiply component of the Fund will be managed by Mayoral Combined Authorities and the Greater London Authority, and upper tier or unitary authorities elsewhere. Further information is available in the Multiply prospectus.

Below we provide the delivery geography for core UKSPF activities for the years 2022-23 to 2024-25.

See funding allocations.

East of England

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mayoral Combined Authority, comprising:

• Cambridge
• East Cambridgeshire
• Fenland
• Huntingdonshire
• South Cambridgeshire
• Peterborough
  
  
• Babergh
• Basildon
• Bedford
• Braintree
• Breckland
• Brentwood
• Broadland
• Broxbourne
• Castle Point
• Central Bedfordshire
• Chelmsford
• Colchester
• Dacorum
• East Hertfordshire
• East Suffolk
• Epping Forest
• Great Yarmouth
• Harlow
• Hertsmere
• Ipswich
• King’s Lynn and West Norfolk
• Luton
• Maldon
• Mid Suffolk
• North Hertfordshire
• North Norfolk
• Norwich
• Rochford
• South Norfolk
• Southend-on-Sea
• St Albans
• Stevenage
• Tendring
• Three Rivers
• Thurrock
• Uttlesford
• Watford
• Welwyn Hatfield
• West Suffolk

East Midlands

• Amber Valley
• Ashfield
• Bassetlaw
• Blaby
• Bolsover
• Boston
• Broxtowe
• Charnwood
• Chesterfield
• Derby
• Derbyshire Dales
• East Lindsey
• Erewash
• Gedling
• Harborough
• High Peak
• Hinckley and Bosworth
• Leicester
• Lincoln
• Mansfield
• Melton
• Newark and Sherwood
• North East Derbyshire
• North Kesteven
• North Northamptonshire
• North West Leicestershire
• Nottingham
• Oadby and Wigston
• Rushcliffe
• Rutland
• South Derbyshire
• South Holland
• South Kesteven
• West Lindsey
• West Northamptonshire

London

Greater London Authority, comprising the London Boroughs of:

• Barking and Dagenham
• Barnet
• Bexley
• Brent
• Bromley
• Camden
• City of London
• Croydon
• Ealing
• Enfield
• Greenwich
• Hackney
• Hammersmith and Fulham
• Haringey
• Harrow
• Havering
• Hillingdon
• Hounslow
• Islington
• Kensington and Chelsea
• Kingston upon Thames
• Lambeth
• Lewisham
• Merton
• Newham
• Redbridge
• Richmond upon Thames
• Southwark
• Sutton
• Tower Hamlets
• Waltham Forest
• Wandsworth
• Westminster
  
  
• and City of London

North East

North East

North of Tyne Mayoral Combined Au-thority, comprising:

• Newcastle
• North Tyneside
• Northumberland

Tees Valley Mayoral Combined Authori-ty, comprising:

• Darlington
• Hartlepool
• Middlesbrough
• Redcar and Cleveland
• Stockton on Tees
  
  
• Durham
• Gateshead
• South Tyneside
• Sunderland

North West England

Greater Manchester Mayoral Combined Authority, comprising:

• Bolton
• Bury
• Manchester
• Oldham
• Rochdale
• Salford
• Stockport
• Tameside
• Trafford
• Wigan

Liverpool City Region Mayoral Com-bined Authority, comprising:

• Halton
• Knowsley
• Liverpool
• St. Helens
• Sefton
• Wirral
  
  
• Allerdale
• Barrow-in-Furness
• Blackburn with Darwen
• Blackpool
• Burnley
• Carlisle
• Cheshire East
• Cheshire West and Chester
• Chorley
• Copeland
• Eden
• Fylde
• Hyndburn
• Lancaster
• Pendle
• Preston
• Ribble Valley
• Rossendale
• South Lakeland
• South Ribble
• Warrington
• West Lancashire
• Wyre

Please note - since publication of the pre-launch guidance, Parliament has agreed legislation to restructure local government in Cumbria. This means we need to update the delivery arrangements for this area.

Individual plans for each of Cumbria’s district council areas are still needed, subject to close collaboration between districts leading investment plans and consent from the shadow unitary councils for Cumberland (covering Allerdale, Carlisle and Copeland), and Westmorland and Furness (covering Barrow-in-Furness, Eden and South Lakeland). Further details are set out in the prospectus.

South East of England

• Adur
• Arun
• Ashford
• Basingstoke and Deane
• Bracknell Forest
• Brighton and Hove
• Buckinghamshire
• Canterbury
• Cherwell
• Chichester
• Crawley
• Dartford
• Dover
• East Hampshire
• Eastbourne
• Eastleigh
• Elmbridge
• Epsom and Ewell
• Fareham
• Folkestone and Hythe
• Gosport
• Gravesham
• Guildford
• Hart
• Hastings
• Havant
• Horsham
• Isle of Wight
• Lewes
• Maidstone
• Medway
• Mid Sussex
• Milton Keynes
• Mole Valley
• New Forest
• Oxford
• Portsmouth
• Reading
• Reigate and Banstead
• Rother
• Runnymede
• Rushmoor
• Sevenoaks
• Slough
• South Oxfordshire
• Southampton
• Spelthorne
• Surrey Heath
• Swale
• Tandridge
• Test Valley
• Thanet
• Tonbridge and Malling
• Tunbridge Wells
• Vale of White Horse
• Waverley
• Wealden
• West Berkshire
• West Oxfordshire
• Winchester
• Windsor and Maidenhead
• Woking
• Wokingham
• Worthing

South West England

West of England Mayoral Combined Authority, comprising:

• Bath and North East Somerset
• Bristol, City of
• South Gloucestershire
  
  

Somerset, comprising:

• Mendip
• Sedgemoor
• Somerset West and Taunton
• South Somerset

Please note – since publication of the pre-launch guidance, Parliament has agreed legislation to restructure local government in Somerset. Somerset County Council, as a ‘continuing authority’ is now tasked with developing a county-wide plan for delivery of UKSPF. Further details are set out in the prospectus.

• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• Cheltenham
• Cornwall & Isles of Scilly
• Cotswold
• Dorset
• East Devon
• Exeter
• Forest of Dean
• Gloucester
• Mid Devon
• North Devon
• North Somerset
• Plymouth
• South Hams
• Stroud
• Swindon
• Teignbridge
• Tewkesbury
• Torbay
• Torridge
• West Devon
• Wiltshire

West Midlands

West Midlands Mayoral Combined Authority, comprising:

• Birmingham
• Coventry
• Dudley
• Sandwell
• Solihull
• Walsall
• Wolverhampton
  
  
• Bromsgrove
• Cannock Chase
• East Staffordshire
• Herefordshire, County of
• Lichfield
• Malvern Hills
• Newcastle-under-Lyme
• North Warwickshire
• Nuneaton and Bedworth
• Redditch
• Rugby
• Shropshire
• South Staffordshire
• Stafford
• Staffordshire Moorlands
• Stoke-on-Trent
• Stratford-on-Avon
• Tamworth
• Telford and Wrekin
• Warwick
• Worcester
• Wychavon
• Wyre Forest

Yorkshire and The Humber

South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, comprising:

• Barnsley
• Doncaster
• Rotherham
• Sheffield

West Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, comprising:

• Bradford
• Calderdale
• Kirklees
• Leeds
• Wakefield
  
  

North Yorkshire, comprising:

• Craven
• Hambleton
• Harrogate
• Richmondshire
• Ryedale
• Scarborough
• Selby

Please note – since publication of the pre-launch guidance, Parliament has agreed legislation to restructure local government in North Yorkshire (excluding York). North Yorkshire County Council, as a ‘continuing authority’ is now tasked with developing a county-wide plan for delivery of UKSPF. Further details are set out in the prospectus.

• East Riding of Yorkshire
• Kingston upon Hull, City of
• North East Lincolnshire
• North Lincolnshire
• York
  
  

Scotland

The UK government is keen to promote regional working where it makes sense for local leaders and can deliver good outcomes for local people and businesses.

In Scotland, we support delivery through Regional Economic Partnerships, where this is the preference of local areas. These regional geographies build on the successful City and Regional Growth Deal partnerships.

We intend to work with the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities to facilitate collaborative work across these Regional Economic Partnership geographies, recognising that the final composition of some partnerships is still to be determined. Under such arrangements, the lead local authority for each partnership will submit a single investment plan.

Below we provide the delivery geography for UKSPF for the years 2022-23 to 2024-25.

See funding allocations.

Aberdeen City Region

This comprises: - Aberdeen City - Aberdeenshire

Ayrshire

This comprises:

• East Ayrshire
• North Ayrshire
• South Ayrshire

South of Scotland

This comprises:

• Dumfries and Galloway
• Scottish Borders

Edinburgh & South East Scotland

This comprises:

• City of Edinburgh
• East Lothian
• Fife
• Midlothian
• West Lothian

Forth Valley

This comprises:

• Clackmannanshire
• Falkirk
• Stirling

Glasgow City Region

This comprises:

• Glasgow City Region
• East Dunbartonshire
• East Renfrewshire
• Inverclyde
• North Lanarkshire
• Renfrewshire
• South Lanarkshire
• West Dunbartonshire

Highlands and Islands

This comprises:

• Argyll and Bute
• Highland
• Moray
• Na h-Eileanan Siar
• Orkney Islands
• Shetland Islands

Tay Cities Region

This comprises:

• Angus
• Dundee City
• Perth and Kinross

Wales

The UK government is keen to promote regional working where it makes sense for local leaders and can deliver good outcomes for local people and businesses.

In Wales, we support delivery across the four regional strategic geographies set out below, which are coterminous with City and Growth Deal areas. We want to work with the Welsh Government and the Welsh Local Government Association to support work across the four existing geographies and develop comprehensive accountable arrangements to administer the Fund in time for submission of each place’s investment plan.

Below we provide the delivery geography for UKSPF for the years 2022-23 to 2024-25.

See funding allocations.

North Wales

This comprises:

• Conwy
• Denbighshire
• Flintshire
• Gwynedd
• Isle of Anglesey
• Wrexham

Mid Wales

This comprises:

• Ceredigion
• Powys

South West Wales / Swansea Bay

This comprises:

• Carmarthenshire
• Neath Port Talbot
• Pembrokeshire
• Swansea

South East Wales / Cardiff Capital Region

This comprises:

• Blaenau Gwent
• Bridgend
• Caerphilly
• Cardiff
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Monmouthshire
• Newport
• Rhondda Cynon Taf
• Torfaen
• Vale of Glamorgan

Northern Ireland

The UK government plans to deliver on a Northern Ireland-wide basis, covering the 11 local authority areas set out below, working with partners to ensure that delivery arrangements reflect the particular needs of the Northern Ireland economy and society.

See the UKSPF allocation for Northern Ireland.

• Antrim and Newtownabbey
• Ards and North Down
• Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
• Belfast
• Causeway Coast and Glens
• Derry City and Strabane
• Fermanagh and Omagh
• Lisburn and Castlereagh
• Mid and East Antrim
• Mid Ulster
• Newry, Mourne and Down