Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 19156

Planning Authorities: Finance

Tabled: 10 December 2024
Answered: 18 December 2024

Question

Ben Goldsborough

LabourSouth Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated to local authority planning departments in each of the last ten financial years.

Answer

Jim McMahon
The majority of funding in the Local Government Finance Settlement is unringfenced recognising that local leaders are best placed to identify local priorities.Local authorities routinely publish their spending information in Revenue Outturn data, which in...

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