In the regions with a sole province, if there is no sub-delegate the Secretary-General of the delegation temporarily assumes office.
The Sub-delegations were created by the 1997 General State Administration Organization and Functioning Act to replace the Civil Governors.
These regions are Asturias, Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Ceuta, Melilla, Murcia, Navarre and La Rioja.
[2] 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.
[4] As of March 2023: According to Section 70 of the Legal Regime of the Public Sector Act, the existence of Insular Directors is not mandatory.
Their official title is Insular Directors of the General State Administration and they possess the same powers as a subdelegate.
[2] 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.