Question follow-through · 39472
Combined Authorities
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the proposed (a) combined authorities and (b) combined county authorities will operate in shadow form before they are vested.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the proposed (a) combined authorities and (b) combined county authorities will operate in shadow form before they are vested.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
The establishment of a Combined County Authority or a Combined Authority is done via implementing secondary legislation. It is for the local authorities who are to become constituent councils in the area to determine whether to set up shadow or transition...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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