| Heading: |
Local Government: Debts |
| Question ID: |
1757190 |
| UIN: |
25262 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4462 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Tom Tugendhat
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| Asking Member handle: |
tomtugendhat
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@tomtugendhat
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2025 to Question 23337 on Local Government: Debts, what will happen to existing Council debt following local government reorganisation where |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4569 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Jim McMahon
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| Answering Member handle: |
JimfromOldham
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@JimfromOldham
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
It is the responsibility of councils to manage their budgets, and it is standard for councils to borrow and to hold debt, which they will do in the normal course of business. Local government reorganisation does not change this. |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |