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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will undertake a feasibility study of reverting the boundaries of Yorkshire to those prior to the splitting of the region after the Local Government Act 1972.

Whilst the Government recognises the part historic counties can play in our traditions and local heritage across the country, we have no plans to undertake top down studies or reviews of local boundaries. We are ready to have conversations with any area about their proposals for the future governance of that area and the powers and budgets they would like to see devolved to it.