Local Government: Reorganisation
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2025 to Question 31882 on Local Government: Reorganisation, what the threshold is for her to submit a formal request for a structural review to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.
Answered by Jim McMahon
As part of the process for changing from two tiers to a single tier of local government, where the Secretary of State receives a proposal in response to an invitation, the Secretary of State may, under section 4 of the 2007 Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act, request the Local Government Boundary Commission England to advise on any matter that relates to the proposal and is specified in the request.
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