questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the estimated (a) population size and (b) total number of households is in each of the proposed new unitary councils in England.
answerText: The 500,000 population figure has always been a guiding principle, not a fixed threshold. There may need to be exceptions to ensure new structures make sense for an area, including to support devolution, and that decisions will be made on a case-by-case b...
heading: Unitary Councils