Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2017 to Question 63310, on local government: conditions of employment, whether partnership arrangements in place between sovereign councils can be terminated against the will of those sovereign partners.
It is a matter for the councils concerned to decide their partnership arrangements, subject to any legislation relating to the establishment of those councils and the powers they have.