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Local Government: Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact on local communities of placing Dawlish and Teignmouth in different unitary authority areas under the proposed Devon local go

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
28 Aug 2026
Target answer date
2 Sept 2026
Answer
15 Sept 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Aug 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact on local communities of placing Dawlish and Teignmouth in different unitary authority areas under the proposed Devon local go

  2. 2 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    I refer the Hon. Member to the Secretary of State’s oral statement of 7 September 2026. The Government has withdrawn the March 2026 decisions for Essex, Hampshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, and paused decisions for the other 14 areas while a full review of the...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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