Local Government: Constituencies

(asked on 1st July 2020) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has had discussions with the Minister for the Cabinet Office on delaying the periodic Ward Boundary Reviews in (i) Tameside and (ii) Stockport for one year to allow local authorities to focus resources on covid-19 prevention and community support activity.


Answered by
Simon Clarke Portrait
Simon Clarke
This question was answered on 6th July 2020

Responsibility for reviewing ward boundaries sits with the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, an independent Parliamentary body responsible to the Speaker's Committee, which agrees the Commission's budget and programme of work.

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