Local Government: Dorset

(asked on 27th February 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Statement of 26 February 2018 HCWS486 on Local Government Policy, what the steps were that were taken after 7 November 2017 to secure local consent; and to the extent to which local consent was secured.


Answered by
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Rishi Sunak
Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
This question was answered on 5th March 2018

The further steps taken to secure local consent involved both East Dorset District Council and Purbeck District Council withdrawing their opposition to the Dorset proposal.

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