Question follow-through · 24794
Local Government: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the total cost of the Government's plans for local authority re-organisation.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 17 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the total cost of the Government's plans for local authority re-organisation.
22 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2025
Answer published
The English Devolution White Paper sets out the overall case for local government reorganisation, including referencing the 2020 PwC report, “Evaluating the importance of scale in proposals for local government reorganisation”, for the County Councils Net...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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