Question follow-through · 41255
Mayors
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that new Mayors are accountable to their local areas.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that new Mayors are accountable to their local areas.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
Within Mayoral Combined Authorities and Mayoral Combined County Authorities there is an existing system of accountability and scrutiny arrangements. This system ensures that public spending is achieving value for money. In the English Devolution White Pap...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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