Reconstituted Local Government Review

EDM number 903 in 1994-95, proposed by Frank Cook on 27/03/1995.

That this House welcomes the support from both the Secretary of State for the Environment and the Shadow Environment Secretary for the return of unitary status to those former county boroughs which lost that status as a result of the local government reorganisation of `shire' England in 1974; notes that, as a result of recommendations from the Local Government Commission and decisions of the Secretary of State, it is already intended that a significant number of those former boroughs should become unitary authorities; believes that, following the announcement of 2nd March by the Secretary of State for the Environment of proposals to reconstitute the Local Government Commission with a specific remit which includes re-examining the case for unitary status for other former county boroughs areas, the Commission should be asked to examine all such cases, namely Barrow in Furness, Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, Burton upon Trent, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Eastbourne, Exeter, Gloucester, Great Yarmouth, Hastings, Ipswich, Lincoln, Northampton, Norwich, Oxford, Preston, Teesside, Warrington and Worcester; and accordingly urges the Secretary of State for the Environment to issue instructions to this effect to the reconstituted Local Government Commission without further delay.

This motion has been signed by a total of 5 MPs.