Question follow-through · 53686
Local Government: Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for unitarisation in areas where local elections were not postponed from May 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 29 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for unitarisation in areas where local elections were not postponed from May 2025.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 May 2025
Answer published
The government will work with these areas to hold elections for new unitary councils as soon as possible as is the usual arrangement in the process of local government reorganisation. The exact timings and detail will depend on the proposals received and ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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