Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 98973

Local Government Finance

Tabled: 10 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026
Named Day

Question

Anneliese Midgley

LabourKnowsley

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms his Department plans to use to monitor the effectiveness of the multi-year Settlement in reducing disparities in funding between more and less deprived local auth

Answer

Alison McGovern
The government is making good on long overdue promises to fundamentally update the way we fund local authorities. We are realigning funding with need by introducing a fairer and evidence-based funding assessment, which will target a greater proportion of ...

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