Written questions

Local Government: Devon

Commons · Question 21421 · Tabled 19 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 10 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take to merge (a) the 8 Devon districts and (b) Devon County Council into unitary councils with Torbay and Plymouth.

Answer

Answered by Jim McMahon, 10 Jan 2025

Following the publication of the English Devolution White Paper on the 16 December, I wrote to all councils where there is a two-tier structure of local government and to their neighbouring unitary councils, to set out further details on the Government's ...