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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to refer the local government reorganisation proposal for Dorset to the Local Government Boundary Commission.

Whilst the process that we are following for considering the Dorset reorganisation proposal does not involve a referral to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, the Commission have indicated that, subject to progress being made, they intend to undertake electoral reviews for the proposed unitary councils.