Question follow-through · 1473
Local Government Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her Department’s policy to amend local authorities’ statutory service obligations.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 24 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 26 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 1 Aug 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her Department’s policy to amend local authorities’ statutory service obligations.
26 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Aug 2024
Answer published
Local authorities play a crucial role in the delivery of this Government’s missions, from driving growth, to delivering opportunities for all. We are fully focussed on resetting the relationship between national and local government, working together in a...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Housing: Greater London
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Social Rented Housing
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Recreation Spaces: Havering
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Trading Standards: Staff
14 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to increase funding for Trading Standards officers.