| Heading: |
Local Government: Public Participation |
| Question ID: |
1763244 |
| UIN: |
29648 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-02-06 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4805 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Alicia Kearns
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Alicia Kearns
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance (a) her Department has and (b) its predecessor Departments have issued to councils on including within their constitutions provision for public participation at cou |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-11 |
| 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: |
We have been clear that it is not for Government to micromanage local authorities. We do not provide guidance on allowing public participation, such as deputations, at formal local authority meetings; it is for individual authorities to decide what public... |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |