Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Written Statement of 7 November 2017, HCWS 232, on local government improvement, what criteria the Government has set by which it will decide whether the necessary local consent has been secured; if he will publish those criteria; and if he will make a statement.

I refer my Hon Friend to the answer given by my Hon Friend, the Minister for Local Government, on 28 February 2017, to Question UIN 65271.