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

ConservativeTonbridge

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 McMahon
It 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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