Question follow-through · 68768
Mayors
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will hold discussions with London boroughs on abolishing council directly elected mayors.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will hold discussions with London boroughs on abolishing council directly elected mayors.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jul 2025
Answer published
The government is proposing to accept the continuation of directly elected council mayors where they are currently in place, while introducing new measures to ensure a more consistent approach to local authority governance arrangements in England. The gov...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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