Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he has made an assessment of the potential merits of updating the 2011 lists of statutory duties placed on local authorities by legislation for which (i) his Department and (ii) other Departments are responsible.

The Government currently has no plans to review the list of statutory duties placed on local authorities but would always welcome ideas and views from colleagues.