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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 17 June 2026 to Question 8780, on Local Government: Reorganisation, what is the criteria for a council’s use of the committee system to be protected.

Councils operating the committee system are generally required to move to the leader and cabinet model. However, where a council has adopted the committee system more recently through either a public referendum or council resolution and remains within the relevant moratorium period, it may retain that model until the end of that period, after which a governance review must be undertaken.