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810177

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many representations he received from business groups prior to the announcement of the local government finance settlement; and if he will publish those representations.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	120643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>A summary of responses to the Local Government Finance Settlement 2018-19 technical consultation can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/local-government-finance-settlement-2018-to-2019-technical-consultation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/local-government-finance-settlement-2018-to-2019-technical-consultation</a></p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 15/01/2018 17:13:28 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

794433

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when she expects the fair funding review for local government to be finalised.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
uin	115406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>We are undertaking the Fair Funding Review to address concerns about the fairness of current funding distributions to local authorities. There have been widespread calls for a thorough, evidence-based Review, and we will deliver this.</p><p>It is important to get funding distributions right and we have been working closely with the Local Government Association and representatives from across local government to seek views on our approach and the target date for implementation. We will shortly be bringing forward a technical consultation on the Review in which we intend to provide further certainty regarding the timeline for this important work.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 115407 question first answered 01/12/2017 13:25:03 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

794434

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to implement an up-to-date needs assessment for local authority area funding in the absence of the 100 per cent business rates retention scheme.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
uin	115407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>We are undertaking the Fair Funding Review to address concerns about the fairness of current funding distributions to local authorities. There have been widespread calls for a thorough, evidence-based Review, and we will deliver this.</p><p>It is important to get funding distributions right and we have been working closely with the Local Government Association and representatives from across local government to seek views on our approach and the target date for implementation. We will shortly be bringing forward a technical consultation on the Review in which we intend to provide further certainty regarding the timeline for this important work.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 115406 question first answered 01/12/2017 13:25:03 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

794435

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to provide funding agreements for local authorities that did not sign up to the four-year funding settlement in the belief that the 100 per cent retention scheme would be implemented.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
uin	115408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>Local authorities that did not sign up to the four-year settlement deal from 2016-17 will have their allocations confirmed on an annual basis. I expect to publish the provisional settlement for 2018-19 shortly.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 01/12/2017 13:22:02 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

780404

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he plans for the Transition Grant to be allocated as part of the 2018-19 local government finance settlement.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	110234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The Local Government Finance Settlement technical consultation 2018-19 closed on 26th October and we are currently analysing responses. Proposals for the 2018-19 settlement will be issued in the form of the provisional settlement for consultation in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 06/11/2017 17:40:45 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

773101

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to review the criteria for the local government funding settlement to ensure that it includes (a) up to date information on population growth and (b) levels of deprivation in each local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	108396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>Through the Fair Funding Review we are working closely with the Local Government Association and representatives from across local government to ensure that we consider all the issues that impact on authorities’ relative need to spend on services and their capacity to fund these from local resources.</p><p>Amongst the issues we will consider are the impact of population growth, deprivation, and specific geographical factors such as rurality and area-related costs.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 26/10/2017 13:24:26 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

768014

registered interest
date	10/10/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on increasing the settlement for local government in the next budget.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	107057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on a range of local government matters, including finances.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 18/10/2017 13:53:47 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

759212

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what level of central government funding each local authority area of England received in real terms in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	9742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>Central government funding, as defined in the Local Authority Revenue Expenditure and Financing Outturn publication, comprises Specific Grants inside Aggregate External Finance, Revenue Support Grant and Police Grant.</p><p>This information is collected in cash terms each year from each local authority in the Revenue Summary (RS) tables. It is available each financial year in the ‘individual local authority data – outturn’ sections on the Department’s website here:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 18/09/2017 14:17:37 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

732716

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the change in the core spending power of (a) Newcastle City Council and (b) local authorities in England has been in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	1182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The definition of spending power has changed over the period 2010-11 to 2019-20, with core spending power being first introduced at the 2016-17 Local Government Finance Settlement. The changes in definition mean that combining these year on year changes to calculate an overall change for the period 2010-11 to 2019-20 is not meaningful.</p><p> </p><p>Information on core spending power for the period 2011-2020 is available at the following links:</p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505110052/http:/www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1112/grant.htm" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505110052/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1112/grant.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505110056/http:/www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1213/grant.htm" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505110056/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1213/grant.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505104701/http:/www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1314/settle.htm" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505104701/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1314/settle.htm</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2014-to-2015</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/change-in-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/change-in-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2015-to-2016</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2017-to-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 29/06/2017 16:30:33 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

732718

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how he plans to ensure that local authorities in England are able to fund their (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory responsibilities after the Revenue Support Grant has ended.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	1184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government periodically assesses resourcing requirements for local government as part of each spending review, ensuring a sustainable basis for local authorities to discharge their functions. This assessment is made irrespective of the funding mechanisms employed.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 29/06/2017 15:38:21 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell