Urban District Councils
Deputy Prime Minister
Written answers and statements, 22 July 2004
Dr Bob Spink (Castle Point, Conservative)
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the current status of an urban district council in England is; and when this status changed.
Mr Nick Raynsford (Minister of State (Local and Regional Government), Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Greenwich & Woolwich, Labour)
Urban district councils were abolished during the reorganisation of local government in 1974. The Local Government Act 1972 divided England into local authority areas called counties and districts. The areas of the former urban district councils became part of the new district council areas.