The Wales Yearbook 2001

Now in its 11th year of publication and growing rapidly in size and popularity, this supremely professional and immensely informative directory of public affairs in Wales has no equal. Without it much of Welsh life would be uncharted, and virtually unknown to the mass of the people of Wales. The almost doubling in size since 1996 (400 pp. to 728 pp.) reflects the creation of many new institutions in Wales, especially the devolved National Assembly for Wales and its penumbra; drastic changes in the National Health Service and in local government (cabinets!); the unfettered spread of unrepresentative quangos; and new...