Paul Marinko 11 November 2025

Ministers urged to synchronise reorganisation and mayoral timetables

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A close up of the entrance to County Hall, Hertfordshire County Council © Stephen Richard McAdam / Shutterstock.com.

Hertfordshire CC's leader has written to ministers calling for moves toward a mayoral strategic authority (MSA) to progress on the same timeline as local government reorganisation.

In his letter to local government secretary Steve Reed, Steve Jarvis argued that synchronising the two made ‘economic and practical sense'.

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