Question follow-through · 901567
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what role the Office of Local Government will play in examining council spending.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what role the Office of Local Government will play in examining council spending.
2 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
We are currently reviewing the role of Office for Local Government and we will announce the outcome shortly. Scrutiny of council spending is clearly important, and that is why we are committed to overhauling the broken local audit system we inherited.We h...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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