The purpose of this Directory is to provide information for the authorities, solicitors and commercial organisations whose work brings them into contact with local authorities.; As usual, the book gives the names, postal and Document Exchange addresses, and telephone and fax numbers of the authorities, listing locations of chief officers. New to this edition is the introduction of e-mail addresses for named officers, and the addition of the function of procurement.; Entries in the Directory are designed to make it easy to find the department and person with responsibility for a specific function. This removes the confusion that often arises due to the varying of departmental names and groupings of responsibilities in different authorities.; Included are Electoral Registration Officers and Scottish Assessors who themselves find this book, and the gazetteer of places in particular, invaluable for their work with rolling registration.; Full details of all the new authorities are given, together with cross-referencing, to enable the user to identify which new authorities have taken over from those that have been disbanded.; The book also lists the parish councils, parish meetings and town councils within each authority's area, and includes a substantial gazetteer of nearly 20,000 places, showing the authority within which each falls.
