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Local Government: Debts

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what will happen to existing Council debt following local government reorganisation.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
15 Jan 2025
Answer
20 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what will happen to existing Council debt following local government reorganisation.

  2. 15 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    It is the responsibility of councils to manage their budgets, and it is standard for councils to borrow and to hold debt, which they will do in the normal course of business. Local government reorganisation does not change this. The government has a frame...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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