LGA PRESS RELEASE

LGA PRESS RELEASE
Press release no:
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Response to announcement on unitary local government - LGA
By LGA Media Office
Responding to Phil Woolas' announcement on unitary structures, Sir Jeremy Beecham, Vice Chairman of the LGA said:"Councils are committed to providing an ever better deal for taxpayers and service users and want to see the best systems in place to help shape local services. Any structural reorganisation of local government must strengthen its ability to provide local leadership and value for money services while allowing it to keep on responding to local needs. "There is no one right way to organise local government. Unitary councils work well in some areas, separate district and county councils in others. What matters is that local people in every area get a system of local government that meets their needs and wishes."

There we have it - Sir Jeremy is off the fence.
Lets have a referendum on the matter and settle it once and for all - agree the question and put it to the public!