Question follow-through · 23150
Local Government: Devolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the section entitled timelines and next steps of her Department’s letter to local councils of 16 December 2024 on the devolution white paper, what the methodolo
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the section entitled timelines and next steps of her Department’s letter to local councils of 16 December 2024 on the devolution white paper, what the methodolo
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2025
Answer published
Reorganisation should not delay devolution. We will shortly set out which areas will be included in our Devolution Priority Programme, aimed at places ready to come together under the sensible geography criteria set out in the White Paper and wishing to p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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