questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with refence to his Department's oral statement of 18 December 2025 on Local Government Reorganisation, Official Report col 1130, what analysis his Department has carried out regarding the potential savings to Greater Essex residents from merging local councils.
answerText: Councils were invited to submit proposals for unitary local government and for those proposals to include estimated costs and benefits. Exact costs and savings will vary, depending on proposals received and which proposals are implemented. The Government ...
heading: Local Government: Reorganisation