Local Government: Standards
2026-06-14 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · HL979 · Official question
Question
To ask His Majesty's Government what specific triggers or powers exist within an active non-statutory Best Value Notice to allow ministers to directly halt, review, or block a major commercial asset disposal-such as the proposed Anthropic data centre tran
Answer
The statutory guidance on Best Value Standards and Intervention sets out the different forms of intervention and indicators of failure which inform a best value assessment. There are no powers within a Best Value Notice, as it is a non-statutory tool desi...