Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 42398

Local Government: Reorganisation

Tabled: 31 March 2025

Answered: 7 April 2025

Question

Sir John Hayes

Conservative — South Holland and The Deepings

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 Lincolnshire.

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 poten...

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