PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Unitary Councils: Reorganisation (22 May 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and which local authorities are engaged in discussions with his Department on reorganisation from a two-tier structure to unitary status.

Asked by:
Gareth Snell (Labour)

Ministers and officials regularly have discussions with many local authorities about a wide range of issues, which may include reorganisation from a two tier structure to unitary status.

In particular there have been discussions with councils in Buckinghamshire, Dorset and Oxfordshire, where proposals for unitarisation have been submitted, and with councils in Northamptonshire which have been invited to make unitary proposals.

Answered by:
Rishi Sunak (Conservative)
4 June 2018