Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 23337
Local Government: Debts
Tabled: 13 January 2025
Answered: 20 January 2025
Question
Tom Tugendhat
Conservative — Tonbridge
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what will happen to existing Council debt following local government reorganisation.
Answer
Jim McMahonIt is the responsibility of councils to manage their budgets, and it is standard for councils to borrow and to hold debt, which they will do in the normal course of business. Local government reorganisation does not change this. The government has a frame...
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