Councillors
(asked on 4th September 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to reduce the cost to the public purse of local government elected representatives.
This question was answered on 14th September 2015
Provisions we are seeking in the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill, if enacted, will allow the processes for effecting local governance changes to be streamlined where councils agree. This includes changes involving reductions in the number of councillors, hence reducing the cost to the public purse of local government representatives.