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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to bring forward proposals for wide scale local government reorganisation in the current Parliament.

The Government remains committed to devolving power to people and places across the UK. We will set out our plans for strengthening local accountable leadership in the Levelling Up White Paper. We are clear that any reform of an area’s local government is most effectively achieved through locally led proposals which are put forward by those who best know the area and which have a good deal of local support. This is the very essence of localism to which the Government remains committed