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Civic Dignitaries

Commons · Question 24613 · Tabled 16 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 24 Jan 2025

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Asked by Peter Lamb

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to take steps to enable communities covered by a borough council to retain (a) mayors, (b) honorary freemen and (c) honorary aldermen; and how appointments of o

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Answered by Jim McMahon, 24 Jan 2025

The Government is committed to ensuring that the treasured historic and ceremonial rights and privileges of local communities will be protected through the local government reorganisation process. General regulations governing unitarisation exercises prov...