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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will ask the Local Government Boundary Commission for England to review the boundary between Lewes District and East Sussex County Councils and Brighton and Hove City Council in order to re-unify Saltdean for the purposes of local government administration.

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England may undertake a boundary review following a request from the councils concerned, the Secretary of State, or on its own initiative. Our policy is that all local government structural or boundary changes should be locally-led, and hence it would not be appropriate for the Secretary of State to request a review of the boundary between Lewes District and East Sussex County Councils, and Brighton and Hove City Council – any such request should be made by the councils concerned.