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...