To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government who will conduct the independent review of the incentives and barriers to serving on councils. (114407)

Paragraph 3.9 of the Local Government White Paper announced the Government’s intention that there should be an independent review. A further announcement on who will conduct it will be made in due course.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the remit of the independent review into the incentives and barriers to serving on councils will include reviewing the salaries paid to councillors. (114408)

Paragraph 3.9 of the Local Government White Paper said that the review of the incentives and barriers to serving on councils will look at a range of issues including allowances and remuneration. A further announcement on terms of reference will be made in due course.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether indirectly elected local authority leaders will be able to be removed from full council by a motion of no confidence under her Department’s proposals for reform of local governance. (114434)

Our proposals provide that a council may remove an indirectly elected leader from that office if its constitution allows this.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to what parliamentary procedure she expects the orders by which the Secretary of State may introduce local government restructuring to be subject. (114509)

The Local Government and Involvement in Public Health Bill provides that orders creating new unitary authorities will be subject to the affirmative resolution procedure.