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Councillors' Interests

Commons · Question 69064 · Tabled 18 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 24 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by David Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the guidance entitled Openness and transparency on personal interests: guidance for councillors, published on 21 March 2013, what requirements councillors have

Answer

Answered by Jim McMahon, 24 Jul 2025

The ‘openness and transparency on personal interests: guidance for councillors’ is clear that a councillor’s disclosable pecuniary interests must be declared to their local authority. This is in line with requirements set out in regulations under the Loca...