It might help if the number of new positive tests were given regionally each day. You can only do that by complicated add ups from the data one by one. So you can check how many new cases are added daily to Manchester for instance.
But it is possible to tot up locally and it would be a better guide to the R status locally now rather than weeks ago.
But not expecting such revolutionary thinking as helpful data to be appearing any time soon sadly.
Up to yesterday 25,984 cases were ascribed to the North West. Second only to London.
We may end up being above them.
Manchester has had 1607 cases up to yesterday, Salford 940. Those are fairly average per population. By comparison Blackpool at 654 cases is way more infected per population than Manchester or Salford.
All the worst hit infection hot spots are in the North East. Sunderland, Middlesbrough etc. Not far short of twice as infected per population as Manchester.