Statutory duties placed on local government

• Published by: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Last updated: 21 March 2011
• Topic: Government
• Licence: Open Government Licence

Summary

Local authorities are bound by statute. Their functions are set out in numerous Acts of Parliament and many of these functions have associated legal duties. At no point in recent history has there been a comprehensive list of legal duties placed on local authorities. The Government therefore agreed with the Local Government Association that we should compile a list of these duties to give clarity about what these are. On 30 June 2011, a summary of the responses and the latest revised list of duties were published. This exercise has successfully enabled a clearer picture of the requirements on local authorities, and created a valuable record that had previously not existed. (See 'Resources' below). The review has now closed. Any future consideration of whether to remove specific duties or associated guidance will be a separate exercise, and Government will consult further as appropriate.

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Data links

Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Duties placed on authorities by legislation for which departments other than DCLG have responsibility	XLS	21 March 2011	Not available
Duties placed on authorities by legislation for which DCLG is responsible	XLS	21 March 2011	Not available

Supporting documents

Link to the document	Format	Date added
Review of local government statutory duties: summary of responses	HTML	29 January 2013
Summary of the review of statutory duties placed on local government	PDF	10 December 2014

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