Member

As we made clear in our response, the Government encourage constituent councils to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders across the area to make sure that the needs of all communities are reflected in the decision-making of the Hampshire and the Solent combined county authority. As I said, we never intended it to be a referendum but always intended to take all views into account. A lot of detailed qualitative comments were made, which we have taken into account in our discussions about how we will take this forward.