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
Conservative — Harwich 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 McMahonThe 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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