Another way to consider this is to look at demand variation between new unitaries created in a given area . Analysis conducted for this work programme clearly shows that the smaller the newly created unitary, the greater the variation in demand across a county footprint.
There is already complexity in accurately distributing resources across a county area when services are disaggregated, and this is made more significant with greater disaggregation and smaller resulting unitary authorities. This analysis is shown across the two graphs below.
Figure 8: Average total demand variation within each scenario
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Figure 9: Total demand variation within each scenario
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