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Question for Department for Communities and Local Government

UIN 28552, tabled on 25 February 2016

Question

Mr Ivan Lewis
Labour
Bury South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what criteria his Department uses to determine the level of supplementary funding provided to local authorities as part of the local government finance settlement.

Answer

Mr Marcus Jones
Conservative
Nuneaton
Commons

Answered on

3 March 2016

The local government finance settlement distributed revenue support grant by looking at the main resources that are available to local councils. The Local Government Finance Report (England) 2016/2017 sets out the basis of this distribution and the results can be found at;

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2016-to-2017.

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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government