Question follow-through · 13871
Councillors: Conduct
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department provides on the potential sanctions available to local authorities in instances when councillors are found to have breached an authority's code of co
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 20 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department provides on the potential sanctions available to local authorities in instances when councillors are found to have breached an authority's code of co
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government considers that the current local government standards regime is broadly ineffectual, inconsistently applied, and lacking in adequate powers to effectively sanction members found in serious breach of their codes of conduct.We are actively co...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Allotments
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Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1926
30 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1926.
Local Government: Reorganisation
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