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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the independent research commissioned for the County Councils Network on restructuring two-tier areas.

Whilst the Government has not undertaken any detailed analysis of the two papers published by the County Councils Network on re-structuring two-tier areas, it considers that they will make a useful contribution to the debate on future governance structures across the country.