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Local Government Leaders' Council
	Local Government Leaders' Council meeting, 24 October 2024
Purpose	Local government representation
Region served	United Kingdom (primarily England)
Chair	Angela Rayner, Deputy Prime Minister

The Local Government Leaders' Council is a forum in the United Kingdom that brings together the deputy prime minister, other ministers in the UK government, and leaders of representative bodies of local government.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Purpose

The council aims to be a "regular forum for the key sector representatives to discuss strategic questions impacting local government, to share key and evolving challenges, and co-design solutions".^[5]

The English Devolution White Paper published on 16 December 2024 states that the council "… [brings] together a representative group of local authority leaders with the Deputy Prime Minister and other ministers so that local leaders have a seat at the table in government and policy solutions can be co-designed with local government."^[6]

Members

Organisations represented on the council include the Local Government Association, Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities, Core Cities Group, Key Cities, County Councils Network, District Councils' Network, and London Councils.^[5]

Most members of the council represent only local government in England, but a small number also represent cities in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The main local government representative bodies of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are not represented on the council.

As of October 2024, the membership of the council is as follows:

Organisation	Geographical extent	Representative	Position within organisation
Government of the United Kingdom	United Kingdom	Angela Rayner	Deputy Prime Minister Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Government of the United Kingdom	United Kingdom	Jim McMahon	Minister of State for Local Government and English Devolution
Core Cities Group	United Kingdom	James Lewis^[7]	Chair
County Councils Network	England	Tim Oliver^[8]	Chair
District Councils' Network	England	Sam Chapman-Allen^[9]	Chair
Key Cities	England and Wales	John Merry^[10]	Chair
Local Government Association	England and Wales	Louise Grittins^[11]	Chair
London Councils	Greater London	Claire Holland^[12]	Chair
Special Interest Group of Municipal Authorities	England	Stephen Houghton^[13]	Chair

Meetings and activities

Meetings

The first meeting of the council took place in October 2024.

The council is expected to meet four times a year.^[3]

Meetings of the Mayoral Council for England
Date	Location
24 October 2024	Harrogate^[14]
16 December 2024	Leeds^[15]^[16]

Activities

On 7 October 2024, the organisational members of the council sent a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves urging reform of the local government funding system to help stable local authority finances.^[17]