Written questions

Local Government: Hampshire

Commons · Question 97762 · Tabled 8 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 15 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the costs, savings and net impact on the public purse of proposed local government reorganisation for Hampshire in each of the next five years.

Answer

Answered by Alison McGovern, 15 Dec 2025

The Plan for Change set out the government’s aim to build empowered, simplified, resilient and sustainable local government that will increase value for money for council taxpayers and enable more funding to be spent on local public services. The statutor...