Lord Lexden Quizzes Government on Preserving Historic Counties

Tabled by Conservative Lord Lexden with cross-Party support, nine other peers took the opportunity of contributing to this debate in three House of Lords.
Lord Lexden is seeking real change to ensure Britain’s historic counties do not become extinct, a thing of the past and no longer relevant. He, in effect, asked for traditional counties to return to their original purpose - that is geographical areas, unrelated to local councils (which were invented in the 1800s, while many of our counties trace their history back more than a thousand years).
Specifically, Lord Lexden called for traditional counties to be the stable geography of the country and included on all maps. He also suggested that ‘ceremonial counties’, created by the Lieutenancies Act 1997, should be realigned to match traditional counties.