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Local Government: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish any correspondence sent to councils on local government restructuring since 16 December 2024.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
7 Jan 2025
Answer
9 Jan 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish any correspondence sent to councils on local government restructuring since 16 December 2024.

  2. 7 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    I wrote immediately after the publication of the English Devolution White Paper on 16 December to leaders of all councils in areas where there is a two-tier structure of local government, and to leaders of neighbouring unitary councils. My letter set out ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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