| Heading: |
Elections: Devolution |
| Question ID: |
1808783 |
| UIN: |
57074 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5361 |
| Asking Member display name: |
James McMurdock
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
James McMurdock
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure (a) transparency and (b) local accountability in areas where local elections have been cancelled as part of planned devolution arrangements. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-11 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4569 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Jim McMahon
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| Answering Member handle: |
JimfromOldham
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@JimfromOldham
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
Accountability for decisions in all local authorities whose elections were postponed remains with the elected members, whose terms of office were extended by one year.The government ran public consultations in the areas on the Devolution Priority Programm... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |