Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 78212

Local Government: Political Impartiality

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Sir James Cleverly

Conservative — Braintree

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether strategic authority commissioners will be politically restricted.

Answer

Miatta Fahnbulleh
The government will be setting out further details on Commissioners in statutory guidance using powers set out in Schedule 3 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill. We will consider appropriate political restrictions to be included in th...
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