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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make a financial assessment of the effect on value for money for the public purse of merging Shrewsbury Town Council with Shropshire Unitary Authority.

Shrewsbury Town Council was set up when the unitary Shropshire Council was established in 2009 and currently is responsible for such matters as the town market, street lighting, and public toilets. If local people believe these responsibilities would be better exercised by Shropshire Council, it is open to them to petition that Council to undertake a community governance review to consider a recommendation that the Town Council be dissolved.