questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish a list of the responsibilities that Town and Parish Council will be expected to take over from District Councils following the creating of new Unitary Authorities; how she plans to fund these changes; and what steps she is planning to take to (i) simply the procedures for small Parish Councils to merge and (ii) increase staff support for Town and Parish Councils.
answerText: The government has no intention to require town and parish councils to deliver functions as part of local government reorganisation. It is for those councils that have received the statutory invitation to consider the delivery of public services as they d...
heading: Parish and Town Councils