Question follow-through · 42398
Local Government: Reorganisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the cost to the public purse of local government reorganisation in Lincolnshire.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 31 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the cost to the public purse of local government reorganisation in Lincolnshire.
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
The overall case for local government reorganisation is set out the English Devolution White Paper. A PWC 2020 report estimated that reorganisation of the then 25 two-tier areas to a single unitary would have a one-off cost of £400 million, with the poten...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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