Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 99493
Local Government Finance
Tabled: 12 December 2025
Answered: 22 December 2025
Question
Sir James Cleverly
Conservative — Braintree
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 24 November 2025, to Question 90719, on Local Government Finance, further to the figures listed for 2024-25 and 2025-26, which local authorities have ha
Answer
Alison McGovernThe Flexible Use of Capital Receipts general direction was introduced in 2016 by the previous government and remains substantively unchanged. As in previous years, the government does not approve specific use of the flexibility.