Nine New Local Authorities
On 25 July 2007, the Local Government Minister, John Healey from the Department for Communities and Local Government announced that nine all-purpose local authorities would be created in 2009 in England.
CountyWatch see this as the next phase of attempts to replace the administration of England and Wales by county and district councils with a series of so-called 'unitary' authorities, which combine the administrative functions of both district councils and county councils. Region-wide functions will be carried out by Regional Development Agencies and new government quangos, following the announcement earlier in the month of the abolition of unelected Regional Assemblies from 2010.
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