Full list of which tier every region in England will be in from Wednesday

The new tiered system is coming into force on Wednesday and promises to be ‘stronger’ than the last.

Each local authority across England has now been placed into either tier 1,2 or 3. The new tier system will come into force from December 2nd, when the four-week national lockdown ends.

Health secretary Matt Hancock announced on November 26th which areas would be placed in which tier as part of the government’s Covid Winter Plan.

There are stricter measures in place for areas put into tiers 2 and 3. Most notably, in Tier 3 where hospitality will remain completely closed except for delivery and takeaway. 

For those in Tier 2, alcohol can only be served alongside a ‘substantial’ meal which includes either a full breakfast, main lunchtime or evening meal. Those hospitality venues that cannot provide this must close. 

The only areas to be placed into Tier 1 (medium alert) include Cornwall, the Scilly Isles and the Isle of Wight.

In Tier 2 (high alert):

• North West:
  • Cumbria
  • Liverpool City Region
  • Warrington and Cheshire
• Yorkshire:
  • York
  • North Yorkshire

    West Midlands:

  • Worcestershire
  • Herefordshire
  • Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin
• East Midlands
  • Rutland
  • Northamptonshire
• East of England:
  • Suffolk
  • Hertfordshire
  • Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough
  • Norfolk
  • Essex, Thurrock and Southend on Sea
  • Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes
• London:
  • all 32 boroughs plus the City of London
• South East:
  • East Sussex
  • West Sussex
  • Brighton and Hove
  • Surrey
  • Reading
  • Wokingham
  • Bracknell Forest
  • Windsor and Maidenhead
  • West Berkshire
  • Hampshire (except the Isle of Wight), Portsmouth and Southampton
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Oxfordshire
• South West:
  • South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton, Mendip and Sedgemoor
  • Bath and North East Somerset
  • Dorset
  • Bournemouth
  • Christchurch
  • Poole
  • Gloucestershire
  • Wiltshire and Swindon
  • Devon

Tier 3 (Very High Alert):

• North East:
  • Hartlepool
  • Middlesbrough
  • Stockton-on-Tees
  • Redcar and Cleveland
  • Darlington
  • Sunderland
  • South Tyneside
  • Gateshead
  • Newcastle upon Tyne
  • North Tyneside
  • County Durham
  • Northumberland
• North West:
  • Greater Manchester
  • Lancashire
  • Blackpool
  • Blackburn with Darwen
• Yorkshire and The Humber:
  • The Humber
  • West Yorkshire
  • South Yorkshire
• West Midlands:
  • Birmingham and Black Country
  • Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
  • Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull
• East Midlands: 
  • Derby and Derbyshire
  • Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
  • Leicester and Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
• South East:
  • Slough (remainder of Berkshire is tier 2: High alert)
  • Kent and Medway
• South West:
  • Bristol
  • South Gloucestershire
  • North Somerset