Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has advised Cambridgeshire County Council that it is prohibited from re-procuring a contract for highway maintenance due to planned local government reorganisation.

Councils remain responsible for their own local decisions during the reorganisation process and are expected to continue to deliver services and operate on a business‑as‑usual basis until reorganisation is complete.

The Department has published an explanatory note setting out that decisions taken during this period should not compromise the future sustainability of new councils or fetter the ability of successor authorities to take decisions in the best interests of their areas, which can be found here.