| 1 | Northern and Yorkshire Region | The counties of Cleveland, Cumbria (except the districts of Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakeland), Durham, Humberside, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear and West Yorkshire. |
| 2 | Trent Region | The counties of Derbyshire (except, in the borough of High Peak, the area of the former borough of Glossop, and the parishes of Charlesworth, Chisworth and Tintwistle), Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire. |
| 3 | Anglia and Oxford Region | The counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Suffolk; and the Royal county of Berkshire. |
| 4 | North Thames Region | The counties of Essex and Hertfordshire; the London boroughs of Barking, Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest; the Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea; the Cities of London and Westminster; and the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple. |
| 5 | South Thames Region | The counties of East Sussex, Kent, Surrey and West Sussex; the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth, and the Royal borough of Kingston upon Thames. |
| 6 | South and West Region | The counties of Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Somerset and Wiltshire; and the Isles of Scilly. |
| 7 | West Midlands Region | The counties of Hereford and Worcester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and West Midlands. |
| 8 | North West Region | The counties of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside; in the county of Cumbria, the districts of Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakeland; and in the county of Derbyshire, in the borough of High Peak, the area of the former borough of Glossop and the parishes of Charlesworth, Chisworth and Tintwistle. |