I asked both Cambridgeshire County Council and Huntingdonshire District Council, under the Freedom of Information Act, for the data they’re using to inform the three options for local government reform that have been presented for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Their answers are basically that they are using publicly accessible data and they very helpfully provided links to the data they’re using. It all follows below.
Huntingdonshire District Council
Dear David Cole
Further to your request received on 24/06/2025, I confirm that the Huntingdonshire District Council has now considered your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Could I ask for the data used to inform the three options for local government reform that have been presented by councils in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough?
I hope the following will answer your query:
We have carefully considered your query, and we find Section 21 – Information accessible to applicant by other means – of the FOI Act applies.
Section 21 applies to information that is already reasonably accessible to the applicant. We are not required to provide information in response to your request if it is already reasonably accessible to you elsewhere. I have attached the tracing document which contains links to all the data used.
We aim to provide a high-quality service to you and hope that you are satisfied with this response.
Yours Sincerely
Information Management Team
3C Shared Services
They include a spreadsheet, which I include below and which I’ve also put on Google Sheets, where it can be viewed and downloaded.
Cambridgeshire County Council
CCC’s response came as a PDF.