“What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement 2026-27 on Greater Manchester.”
Asked by
Afzal Khan
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Local Government and Homelessness (Alison McGovern)
The Government are making good on long-overdue promises to fundamentally update the way that we fund local authorities. We are re-aligning funding with need and deprivation through the first multi-year local government finance settlement in a decade. The provisional 2026-27 settlement will make available almost £78 billion in core spending power for local authorities in England. For Greater Manchester authorities, it makes available up to £3.92 billion in core spending power in 2026-27, an increase of 16.4% compared to 2024-25, which is a real-terms increase.