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| Jan 5, 2022 at 13:06 | comment | added | BeaglesEnd | You seem to be comparing different levels of Government which perform different functions. Buckinghamshire Council is, for the most part, the lowest level of government for the area and dealing with local waste collection, local tax, primary school education, and local services. The other examples you provided are not the lowest level of Government and handle national policy or oversee, but not enforce, state / city services. You'd be better off comparing to London Boroughs, Californian Counties, or other rural English Borough Councils. | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 22:05 | answer | added | user36423 | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Dec 23, 2021 at 18:15 | comment | added | origimbo | @CDJB in case it isn't clear to the OP, the 236 was across the old 2 tier system of a county council and 4 district councils, with "double-hatting" being people serving on both levels at once. | |
| Dec 23, 2021 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/1474077367622582277 | ||
| Dec 23, 2021 at 17:48 | comment | added | CDJB♦ | Interestingly, according to Hansard, 147 councillors is actually a significant reduction - before the unitary authority was created, the area could have been governed by 236 individual councillors. However, due to ‘double-hatting’ in practice this was just over 200. | |
| Dec 23, 2021 at 17:40 | history | edited | CDJB♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 23, 2021 at 16:13 | comment | added | Steve Melnikoff | Good question. For comparison, Birmingham City Council has 101 councillors representing 1.1 million people, compared to 540,000 people in Bucks. Durham County Council has 126 councillors for 530,000 people (source for population figures). | |
| Dec 23, 2021 at 15:32 | answer | added | origimbo | timeline score: 7 | |
| S Dec 23, 2021 at 15:07 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Dec 23, 2021 at 15:07 | history | asked | buckinghamshire | CC BY-SA 4.0 |