NUTS boundaries are used for reporting of regional statistics to Eurostat and those statistics are used to inform regional policy. The Scottish Government is proposing to create a fifth NUTS2 boundary in the south of Scotland. Do you have any comments on the Scottish Government's proposals for creating a fifth NUTS2 region?
Responses were generally supportive of the proposal however some issues were raised which the Scottish Government has given its response to. Please see the full Review of NUTS Boundaries.
It is the opinion of the Chief Statistician and the Scottish Government that the reporting of statistics to the European Union for Scotland would be better achieved by creating a fifth NUTS area for ‘Southern Scotland’ and reducing the size of the South Western and Eastern regions.
This will create more population balanced NUTS2 areas and will improve statistical evidence and reporting for the mainly rural south of Scotland.
The Scottish Government has now recommended to ONS that they request changes to the NUTS2 regions as detailed in this document. The Scottish Government will also recommend the three NUTS2 areas be classified as ‘Eastern Scotland’, ‘West Central Scotland’ and ‘Southern Scotland’. These names will reflect the areas which they represent.
View submitted responses where consent has been given to publish the response.
After the consultation has closed, the Scottish Government will consider the views of respondents and form a response which will be sent to the Office of National Statistics(ONS). ONS will send a response for the whole of the United Kingdom, reflecting the views of the Scottish Government, to Eurostat.
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