Paul Marinko 17 March 2025

Government insists counties hand over reorganisation data

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The Government has insisted district councils should be given access to data by counties to build robust cases for their unitary reorganisation plans.

Following a call by South Cambridgeshire DC leader Bridget Smith to intervene where counties were blocking access, local government minister Baroness Sharon Taylor of Stevenage said the Government had written to counties to ‘set out quite clearly that we do expect data to be made available'.

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