Ideally, the evolution of a regional policy should provide a continuing testing ground on which to formulate ways of administering truly co‐operative policies, involving all three levels of government. As the previous speakers, Sir Charles Barton and Mr Cappie‐Wood, have demonstrated, there is presently a great interest in regionalism in this country. Some commentators have seen this as a re‐awakening of the views of the post‐war planning period, but with the significant change that this time, governments of all political colours are taking a definite interest in regional c