Question follow-through · 29662
Local Government: Public Participation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has issued guidance to Councils on the process for residents to issue deputations at meetings; and whether residents are required to provide the full text
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 11 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has issued guidance to Councils on the process for residents to issue deputations at meetings; and whether residents are required to provide the full text
11 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Feb 2025
Answer published
We have been clear that it is not for Government to micromanage local authorities. We do not provide guidance on allowing public participation, such as deputations, at formal local authority meetings; it is for individual authorities to decide what public...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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