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Waste Disposal: Birmingham

Commons · Question 54045 · Tabled 21 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 4 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by David Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to expand the remit of her Best Value Commissioners in Birmingham City Council and instruct them to suspend the council trade union facility time g

Answer

Answered by Jim McMahon, 4 Jun 2025

The response to the ongoing disruption in Birmingham’s waste services rightly continues to be led at the local level. Best Value Commissioners are not directly involved in negotiations between the Council and Unite but continue to work constructively with...