Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 76456

Devolution

Tabled: 10 September 2025
Answered: 17 September 2025

Question

Peter Fortune

ConservativeBromley and Biggin Hill

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 2.2.5 of the English Devolution White Paper, published on 16 December 2024, which global city authorities his Department plans to consider.

Answer

Miatta Fahnbulleh
The Greater London Authority (GLA) is an Established Mayoral Strategic Authority (EMSA) and will be formally made as such via the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (‘the Bill’). As with other EMSAs, the Bill will grant the GLA the ‘right t...

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