Question follow-through · 22808
Combined Authorities: Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that candidates standing in combined authority elections are not also responsible for (a) setting up and (b) overseeing those authorities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that candidates standing in combined authority elections are not also responsible for (a) setting up and (b) overseeing those authorities.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
Under the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, all local authorities who are to be constituent members of a combined authority must consent to the combined authority’s establishment. This does not disqualify any constituent loc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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