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Written Question
Local Government Finance: Buckinghamshire
Tuesday 20th November 2018

Asked by: Cheryl Gillan (Conservative - Chesham and Amersham)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to ensure that the existing financial reserves held by Chiltern District Council will be spent in the Chiltern District Council area.

Answered by Rishi Sunak

Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary secondary legislation, Chiltern District Council will be able to continue to take decisions about the use of its existing financial reserves until 31 March 2020, after which, remaining reserves become the responsibility of the new unitary district council which may decide to use them to resource new community boards being established and services and assets being devolved to any town and parish councils in the area.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Nov 2018
Budget Resolutions

"The Secretary of State makes a powerful point about maintaining our communities, and he will know that this Budget contains the starting elements of the arc between Oxford and Cambridge via Milton Keynes, which has the potential for more than 1 million houses being built across that swath of middle …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 20 Jun 2018
Rail Services: Cumbria

"With permission of the hon. Member who moved the motion, I call John Woodcock for a brief contribution...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 Mar 2018
Integrated Communities

"May I join my right hon. Friend in utterly condemning the “punish a Muslim” letters? Having read the text, I am appalled, and I hope that our Government will ensure that the full force of the law is put behind finding the senders of these letters and ensuring that they …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Mar 2018
National Planning Policy Framework

"I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and look forward to contributing to the consultation. Can he reaffirm the assurances given to me by the Prime Minister that the strongest possible protections for areas of outstanding natural beauty and for green-belt and designated land will continue—for example, in my constituency, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 27 Feb 2018
Department for Transport

"I share the concerns expressed by the hon. Member for Harrow West (Gareth Thomas) about the threat to community transport services. When this debate was listed, I was immediately contacted by David Ouvry, the chairman of our redoubted Chilterns Dial-a-Ride, because he is so concerned about the implications. We understand …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Jan 2018
Housing and Infrastructure: Chilterns

"I am delighted to have secured this Adjournment debate today, as it will give me the opportunity to highlight some of the fears that have been expressed to me, and that I share, about the proposals for housing and infrastructure development in Buckinghamshire and its effect on the Chilterns area …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Jan 2018
Housing and Infrastructure: Chilterns

"If I must this early on...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Jan 2018
Housing and Infrastructure: Chilterns

"My hon. Friend will have to hold fire. I will come to such matters later in my speech, but I thank him for his intervention.

The report laid the foundations for the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, under which protections for AONBs were set out. Subsequently, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Jan 2018
Housing and Infrastructure: Chilterns

"I thought I heard my hon. Friend saying that there is an acceptance that the status quo is not one of the options. I understood that the status quo was one of the options that was being considered by the Secretary of State...."
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