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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of the correspondence between his Department and Dorset Councils since 1 July 2016 relating to the application by those councils to establish a combined authority for Dorset from April 2017.

I have today placed in the Library of the House a copy of the letter we have received from Dorset Councils since 1 July 2016.