{"value":{"id":1306703,"askingMemberId":4153,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2021-03-25T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2021-04-12T00:00:00","uin":"HL14643","questionText":"To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to establish a unitary local authority in Devon.","answeringBodyId":7,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4877,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2021-04-09T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Government is clear that any reform of an area’s local government is most effectively achieved through locally-led proposals put forward by those who best know the area, the very essence of localism to which the Government remains committed. The Government will not impose top-down Government solutions for restructuring and will continue to follow a locally-led approach for unitarisation.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Unitary Councils: Devon","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1306703","method":"GET"}]}