Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 33843

Local Government: Reorganisation

Tabled: 26 February 2025
Answered: 10 March 2025

Question

Sir Bernard Jenkin

ConservativeHarwich and North Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the cost to the public purse of local government reorganisation in Essex.

Answer

Jim McMahon
The overall case for local government reorganisation is set out the English Devolution White Paper.A PWC 2020 report estimated that reorganisation of the then 25 two-tier areas to a single unitary would have a one-off cost of £400 million, with the potent...

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