Question follow-through · 23047
Councillors: Devolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing an alternative title for county councillors who remain in office after 1 May 2025 due to their authority’s par
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing an alternative title for county councillors who remain in office after 1 May 2025 due to their authority’s par
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
There are no plans to provide an alternative title for county councillors whose authority participates in the devolution priority programme.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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