On 1 April 2009 a significant change occured for local government in England when several local authorities (county and district councils in most cases) were absorbed into new unitary authorities.

The eGov Register will continue to show the old authorities for a while after 1 April but all the product usage records for these LAs will be deleted. Where an authority has become the new unitary then its previous product usage records will be retained until they can be reviewed and updated.

A summary of these changes is shown below -

1. LAs which will cease to exist on 1 April and whose product usage records will be deleted:

Alnwick
Bedfordshire
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Blyth Valley
Bridgnorth
Caradon
Carrick
Castle Morpeth
Cheshire
Chester-le-Street
Chester
Congleton
Crewe and Nantwich
Derwentside
Durham City
Easington
Ellesmere Port & Neston
Kennet
Kerrier
Macclesfield
Mid-Bedfordshire
North Cornwall
North Shropshire
North Wiltshire
Oswestry
Penwith
Restormel
Salisbury
Sedgefield
Shrewsbury & Atcham
South Bedfordshire
South Shropshire
Teesdale
Tyndale
Vale Royal
Wansbeck
Wear Valley
West Wiltshire


2. LAs which have become new unitary councils and will inherit their previous product usage records:

Bedford
Cornwall
Durham
Northumberland
Shropshire
Wiltshire


3. LAs which are new unitaries and have no previous product usage history:

Central Bedfordshire
Cheshire East
Cheshire West

The new unitary councils have been set up as an LA Group which allows you to see what software is in use across the whole group - see http://www.brent.gov.uk/egr.nsf/Groups/New+Unitaries+-+April+2009