Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber
From SR
The Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber works with organisations across the Region to deliver Government policies and programmes and to contribute a regional perspective in their development.
Its aim is to deliver thriving and sustainable communities across the region by working in partnership, ensuring effective delivery of Government programmes and informing policy development to:
- Improve the economy
- Improve the quality of life of all those who live or work in the region, and the quality of experience for those who visit
- Protect and improve the natural and built environment.
The region stretches from the towns, cities and ports of the East coast and both banks of the Humber estuary across the agriculturally rich East Riding, the North Yorkshire moors, the Vale of York and the Dales to the Pennines and the towns and cities and rural areas of West and South Yorkshire where the majority of the population lives.
They government departments represented are:
- Cabinet Office
- Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
- Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
- Department of Health (DoH)
- Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR)
- Department for Transport (DfT)
- Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- Home Office
- Ministry of Justice
