Question follow-through · 28590

Local Government: Reorganisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department are taking to ensure that Basildon and Thurrock do not lose access to funding or investment opportunities while local government reorganisation is under

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
9 Sept 2026
Target answer date
11 Sept 2026
Answer
15 Sept 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Sept 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department are taking to ensure that Basildon and Thurrock do not lose access to funding or investment opportunities while local government reorganisation is under

  2. 11 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    As set out by the Secretary of State in her oral statement of 7 September, the government has withdrawn the March 2026 decisions for Essex, Hampshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, and paused decisions for the other 14 areas while a full review of the local govern...

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Official data retrieved 25 Sept 2026.

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