Question follow-through · 30143
Byelaws
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her plans to give councils new powers to issue bye-laws, whether it is her intention that such bye-laws could regulate otherwise lawful activity on private land
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 14 Feb 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her plans to give councils new powers to issue bye-laws, whether it is her intention that such bye-laws could regulate otherwise lawful activity on private land
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Feb 2025
Answer published
The government will work with councils to determine how and what byelaws can be made as set out in the English Devolution White Paper.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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