Policy paper

Local authority overview and scrutiny: government response to select committee report

Government’s response to the select committee report on the effectiveness of local authority overview and scrutiny.

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
• Published: 5 March 2018

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

Government response to the select committee report on the effectiveness of local authority overview and scrutiny

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-0214-3, Cm. 9569

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Scrutiny can play a vital role in ensuring local accountability on a wide range of local issues. It is one of the key checks and balances in the system. This document sets out the government’s response to the select committee’s report on the effectiveness of the overview and scrutiny system currently operating at a local government level.

Published 5 March 2018