Question follow-through · 21097
Local Government: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the population sizes in the English Devolution White Paper refer to (a) electorate and (b) total population.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
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- Elections: Devon · 19 Dec 2024
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the population sizes in the English Devolution White Paper refer to (a) electorate and (b) total population.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2025
Answer published
The population sizes outlined in the English Devolution White Paper for creating new unitary councils and new devolution geographies refer to total population.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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