Last week I received a letter from the Rt. Hon. James Brokenshire MP, Secretary of State for Housing Communities and Local Government, updating me on the change in Local Government across Northamptonshire.
"I am writing to let you know that I am announcing that I have decided to implement with one modification the proposal to replace all the existing Northamptonshire with two new unitary councils which seven councils submitted to me. Implementation is subject to the Secretary of State for Education issuing a statutory direction requiring the establishment of a Children's Trust and to Parliamentary approval of the necessary secondary legislation."
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