Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 55899

Local Government: Woking

Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 5 June 2025

Question

Mr Will Forster

Liberal DemocratWoking

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has considered extending the remit of Woking Borough Council’s Commissioners to assist the new shadow unitary authority in Woking following local government reorganis

Answer

Jim McMahon
Commissioners were appointed to Woking Borough Council in 2023 to facilitate recovery and improvement, following historic commercial mismanagement and major governance failures, with the Council having accumulated an extraordinary level of debt, far excee...

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