Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have held with councillors and officers (1) of Lancashire County Council, (2) of Blackpool Borough Council, (3) of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, and (4) of Lancashire District Councils since 1 January, on matters relating to proposals for (a) a combined authority, (b) an elected mayor, and (c) reorganisation of local government structures; and what advice they have given to each of those Councils.
There have been a number of discussions between councils across the Lancashire area and Ministers and officials about possible local government reforms. The government has set out a clear commitment to level up all areas of the country by empowering our regions through devolving money, resources and control away from Westminster, and will set out its detailed plans in the Devolution and Local Recovery White Paper that will be published this Autumn.