Written questions

Local Government: Reorganisation

Commons · Question 129821 · Tabled 27 Apr 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 29 Apr 2026

Question

Asked by Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the (i) systems and (ii) manpower capacity in local authorities to implement local government reorganisation; and if he will place

Answer

Answered by Alison McGovern, 29 Apr 2026

Councils, as independent employers, are responsible for the management of their staff and undertaking workforce planning. As part of the local government reorganisation programme, local authorities were required to set out in their proposals how they woul...