Question follow-through · 5660
Population: Advisory Bodies
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a cross-government independent advisory body to consider the (a) short and long term effects of population growth in the UK.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 32 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a cross-government independent advisory body to consider the (a) short and long term effects of population growth in the UK.
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
There are no current plans to create an independent advisory body on the effects of population growth. The effects of population growth and other demographic shifts are already considered as part of wider work in government.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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