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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant the Answer of 6 March 2017 to Question 66171, on local government: Dorset, by what means interested parties will be able to ascertain what the last date is for further representations to be made; and how much notice will be given to those parties of that date.

In announcing our initial decision on any proposal we have received we will set out the period during which interested parties may submit any further representations and which, as I made clear in my answer of 6 March to Question 66171, will ensure interested parties have a reasonable time in which to do so.