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In Spain, apart from the Central Administration, the central government has a Peripheral Administration. This administration is composed of all those decentralized government services, and they are coordinated by the Government Delegations, which are headquartered in the Spanish regions' capitals. Likewise, this delegations exercise its powers through sub-delegations, headquartered in the provinces and insular directorates, headquartered in some islands. In total, there are 19 government delegations, 44 sub-delegations and 7 insular directorates.

The government delegations were established pursuant Section 154 of the Spanish Constitution and grants to them the task of direct the Government Administration in the regions as well as to direct the regional administration when necessary. The sub-delegations and insular directorates were extended to the national territory in 1997 although it already existed since the 1970s. Their task is to assist the Government Delegate. All of them are part of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Civil Service.

Delegations and sub-delegations

Both entities are regulated in the Legal Regime of the Public Sector Act of 2015.

Government Delegation

The Government Delegations or Delegations of the Government are the bodies that represents the central government in the autonomous communities. The Government Delegates have the rank of Under Secretaries and they report to the Prime Minister, although normally this competence is delegated into the Minister for Territorial Policy or, the Secretary of State for Territorial Policy. They are appointed by the Council of Ministers at the request of the Premier. If the office of Delegate is vacant, they are replaced by the Sub-delegate until a new Delegate is appointed. In the regions with a sole province, if there is not sub-delegate is the Secretary-General of the delegation who temporary assumes the office.

Unlike the sub-delegations and insular directorates, the Delegations are constitutionally provided. The main tasks of the delegations are:

Government Sub-delegation

The Government Sub-delegations or Sub-delegations of the Government are bodies that represents the central government in the Spanish provinces. The Sub-delegations were created by the 1997 General State Administration Organization and Functioning Act to replace the Civil Governors. It exists a Sub-delegate of the Government in each province under the authority of the regional-level Government Delegate. They are appointed by the Delegate from career civil servants and they exercise the same powers of the Delegate but a provincial level.

In the single-province autonomous communities and in the autonomous cities, as a general rule, the Government Delegate assumes the powers that the Law attributes to the Government Sub-delegates in the provinces. These regions are Asturias, Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Ceuta, Melilla, Murcia, Navarre and La Rioja. In Madrid, since 2003, because of its importance as the capital of the Kingdom and despite being a single-province region, there is both Delegate and Sub-Delegate of the Government.

Headquarters of the Government Sub-delegation in Zamora.

Current delegations and sub-delegations

As of March 2023:

Delegation (Region) Official Term start Refs.
Sub-delegation (Province)
Andalusia Pedro Fernández Peñalver 30 March 2021
Almería José María Martín Fernández 6 October 2022
Cádiz José Antonio Pacheco Calvo 19 September 2018
Córdoba Rafaela Valenzuela Jiménez 19 September 2018
Granada María Inmaculada López Calahorro 19 September 2018
Huelva Manuela Parralo Marcos 19 September 2018
Jaén Catalina Madueño Magdaleno 19 September 2018
Málaga Francisco Javier Salas Ruiz 16 July 2021
Seville Carlos Toscano Sánchez 19 September 2018
Aragon María del Pilar Alegría Continente 12 February 2020
Huesca Silvia Salazar Altemir 18 September 2020
Teruel José Ramón Morro García 7 September 2018
Zaragoza Fernando Ángel Beltrán Blázquez 23 July 2020
Cantabria Ainoa Quiñones Montellano 12 February 2020
Castilla–La Mancha Francisco Tierraseca Galdón 16 March 2019
Albacete Miguel Juan Espinosa Plaza 17 June 2020
Ciudad Real María Ángeles Herreros Ramírez 17 September 2018
Cuenca María Luz Fernández Marín 15 June 2022
Guadalajara María Mercedes Gómez Mena 13 May 2021
Toledo Carlos Ángel Devia 11 September 2018
Castile and León José Javier Izquierdo Roncero 12 February 2020
Ávila Fernando Galeano Murillo 11 February 2022
Burgos Pedro Luis de la Fuente Fernández 5 October 2018
León Faustino Sánchez Samartino 12 November 2018
Palencia Ángel Domingo Miguel Gutiérrez 12 November 2018
Salamanca María Encarnación Pérez Álvarez 5 October 2018
Segovia María del Lirio Martín García 19 October 2018
Soria Miguel Latorre Zubiri 26 October 2018
Valladolid Vacant 20 October 2022
Zamora Ángel Blanco García 24 September 2018
Catalonia Carlos Prieto Gómez 28 March 2023
Barcelona Carlos Prieto Gómez 27 August 2019
Girona Albert Bramón Vives 31 July 2018
Lleida José Crespin Gómez 5 September 2018
Tarragona Joan Sabaté Borràs 31 July 2018
Ceuta Salvadora del Carmen Mateos Estudillo 19 June 2018
Community of Madrid Francisco Martín Aguirre 28 March 2023
Madrid María Elena Bernardo Llorente 30 June 2020
Valencian Community Gloria Isabel Calero Albal 12 February 2020
Alicante María Araceli Poblador Pacheco 16 August 2018
Castellón Soledad Inmaculada Ten Bachero 16 August 2018
Valencia Luis Felipe Mrtínez Martínez 15 October 2021
Extremadura María Yolanda García Seco 19 June 2018
Badajoz Francisco Alejandro Mendoza Sánchez 28 June 2018
Cáceres José Antonio García Muñoz 28 June 2018
Galicia José Ramón Gómez Besteiro 28 March 2023
La Coruña María Rivas Ló 24 August 2021
Lugo María Isabel Rodríguez López 10 September 2018
Ourense Emilio González Afonso 10 September 2018
Pontevedra María del Carmen Larriba García 10 September 2018
Balearic Islands Aina Calvo 12 February 2020
Canary Islands Anselmo Pestana Padrón 12 February 2020
Las Palmas María Teresa Mayans Vázquez 29 November 2018
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Jesús Javier Plata Vera 28 September 2018
La Rioja Beatriz Arraiz Nalda 30 August 2022
Melilla Sabrina Moh Abdelkader 19 June 2018
Navarre José Luis Arasti Pérez 19 June 2018
Basque Country Denis Itxaso González 12 February 2020
Álava Javier Sáez Lanas 22 November 2021
Guipúzcoa Guillermo Echenique González 4 September 2018
Biscay José Vicente Reyes Martín 4 September 2018
Principality of Asturias Delia Losa Carballido 19 June 2018
Region of Murcia José Vélez Fernández 12 February 2020

Insular Directorates

Headquarters of the central government's Insular Directorate in Fuerteventura.

According to Section 70 of the Legal Regime of the Public Sector Act, the existence of Insular Directors is not mandatory. When they exist, they are freely appointed by the Government Delegate among civil servants and they depend directly from the Delegate or the Sub-delegate if exists. Their official title is Insular Directors of the General State Administration and they possess the same powers as a subdelegate.

Directorate Official Term start Refs.
Balearic Islands
- Ibiza-Formentera Ramón Roca Mérida 5 April 2019
Menorca Isabel López Manchón 19 July 2018
Canary Islands
Lanzarote Juan Ramón Pérez Borges 2 October 2020
Fuerteventura Domingo Francisco Fuentes Curbelo 5 October 2018
La Palma Ana María de León Expósito 5 October 2018
La Gomera Juan Luis Navarro Mesa
El Hierro José Carlos Hernández Santana 21 February 2019

Collective assistance bodies

In order to assist the Government Delegates, there are two kind of collective bodies. The first kind are to Government Delegations which powers extend in more than one province, while the second is for one-province delegations. The Sub-delegates also have an assistance bodies and there is a nation-wide committee to coordinate all Delegations.

More-than-one province

These bodies are chaired by the Delegate of the Government and integrated by the Sub-delegates of the Government of the provinces of its jurisdiction and the heads of the other departments and agencies of the Delegation. They exist to coordinate the actions of the different bodies, to homogenize the policies, to advise the Delegate of the Government and to discuss any other matter that the Delegate considers relevant.

Single province delegation

In the single-province Autonomous Communities, it exists an assistance body chaired by the Delegate of the Government and integrated by the Secretary-General of the Delegation (who runs day-to-day the Delegation) and the heads of the other departments and agencies of the Delegation.

Government Sub-delegations

In each Sub-delegation of the Government it exist an assistance committee to the Sub-delegate integrated by the Secretary-General of the Sub-delegation and the heads of the other departments and services of the Sub-delegation. They do the same duties as the other assistance bodies but at a provincial level.

Coordination Committee' meeting in February 2020.

Interministerial Coordination Committee on the State Peripheral Administration

The Interministerial Coordination Committee on the State Peripheral Administration is a body of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Civil Service chaired by the Minister and integrated by the Secretary of State for Territorial Policy (deputy chair), the Secretary-General for Territorial Coordination, all the Under Secretaries of the government departments, all the Delegates of the Government and the Director-General for Internal Policy. To the meetings of the committee also assists the Deputy Director-General for the Boost of Peripheral Administration which acts as Secretary of the Committee and other senior officials of the Administrations invited by the chair.

The Committee is in charge to improve the coordination of the central government Peripheral Administration, to boos the share of information, to establish a unique criteria of action and to discuss relevant issues for the government policy in the regions.

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