Huntingdonshire
District an MP says the Government's option D would split between two unitaries.
On 1 September 2026, Huntingdon's Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty told the Commons that ministers had picked option D, which would split Huntingdonshire between two new unitary councils. The minister confirmed nothing.
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UK Local Elections 2026MP says option D splits Huntingdonshire
UK Local Elections 2026Background
Huntingdonshire is a district in Cambridgeshire, inside the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area that the government's reorganisation programme would redraw into new unitary councils.
In a Commons debate on 1 September 2026, Ben Obese-Jecty, the Conservative MP for Huntingdon, said ministers had chosen option D, which would cut the district in two. He pointed to Peterborough City Council's debt, worth 91% of its assets against a national benchmark of 50%. The minister did not confirm option D, and no Structural Changes Order had been laid.
No decision followed. On 7 September the government folded Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, which it had held back in July, into a rapid review of all pending reorganisation decisions, and said council elections in May 2027 would use existing boundaries.
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