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Local Government: Dorset

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Question for Department for Communities and Local Government

UIN 65271, tabled on 23 February 2017

Question

Mr Christopher Chope
Conservative
Christchurch
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether, in assessing proposals for local government reorganisation in Dorset, the requirements for greater value for money, better local services and significant savings need to be satisfied in respect of each individual council area or solely against the whole area of Dorset.

Answer

Mr Marcus Jones
Conservative
Nuneaton
Commons

Answered on

28 February 2017

I will carefully consider any proposal made by one or more councils in an area for reorganising that area's local government, and reach a judgement in the round as to whether the proposal, if implemented, is likely to improve the area's local government, commands a good deal of local support in the area, and whether the area itself is a credible geography for the proposed new structures.

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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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