Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with Torbay Council regarding the future status of the local authority.
Ministers and officials regularly have discussions with local authorities about a wide range of issues, which may include, as when officials met Torbay Council on 1 September 2017, discussions about an authority’s status. In the event, following that September 2017 meeting Torbay Council made no proposal to change its current unitary status.