Question follow-through · 24260
Parish and Town Councils
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is her policy to introduce increased roles for parish and town councils.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is her policy to introduce increased roles for parish and town councils.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2025
Answer published
Local authorities act independently of central government. Town and parish councils can work with other tiers of local government to determine how they can best serve their communities in their area. The English Devolution White Paper was clear that we kn...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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