Local Government: Reorganisation
Commons · Question 33843 · Tabled 26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Sir Bernard Jenkin
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the cost to the public purse of local government reorganisation in Essex.
Answer
Answered by Jim McMahon, 10 Mar 2025
The overall case for local government reorganisation is set out the English Devolution White Paper.A PWC 2020 report estimated that reorganisation of the then 25 two-tier areas to a single unitary would have a one-off cost of £400 million, with the potent...