Dodds told BBC South’s political editor Peter Henley that it made sense to put local government reorganisation ahead of mayoral elections.
She said: “It’s already been announced that there’s going to be £1m unlocked really quickly to help support the development of those mayoral authorities – £3m going to each one of those areas that are going to be seeing these new mayoral systems, so this is really about pushing power down from London.”
She added: “We’re seeing that local government reorganisation take place, so there will be much more transparency than there is at the moment, and that’s what people want to see.
“They don’t want to have confusion about who’s responsible for what, they want to have accountability.”
