Policy Review Section

Abstract

In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Professor Michael Chisholm of the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, and a member of the Local Government Commission until June 1995, gives his reflections on the work of the Commission to date. His focus is the wider questions which the exercise raises concerning the governance of the country. In the second article, Alan Pack, Ann Clewer and Thea Sinclair of the Department of Economics, University of Kent, examine the inter and intraregional distribution of tourism demand in the UK for the period 1976 to 1992. The results show a decrease in the interregional concentration with the greatest dispersal of demand from the London, the South and South East regions to the most geographically proximate areas, while the more peripheral regions experienced significantly lower increases in their share of demand. The third article, by Martin Jones of the School of Geography, University of Manchester, explores the policy implications of the funding strategy for Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) adopted by the Department of Employment.