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date	15/12/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Climate Change: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor for the Exchequer, whether he will commit to bringing forward a support package for local authorities to be able to adapt and protect communities against the impacts of climate change.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	111590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>The 2023-24 Local Government Finance Settlement provides an increase in Core Spending Power for local authorities of around 9%, making available almost £5 billion in additional funding, demonstrating how Government stands behind councils up and down the country. As democratically elected organisations, local authorities are responsible for managing their budgets and making spending decisions that reflect their priorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is responsible for stewardship of the local government system and is committed to ensuring that funding allocations for councils are based on an up-to-date assessment of their needs and resources.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 21/12/2022 09:02:47 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

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registered interest
date	15/12/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to incorporate lessons learned from the recent UK Investment Bank local lending pilots into government policy on financing Net Zero.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	111591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) has a mandate to tackle climate change and support regional and local economic growth across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>UKIB has launched three pilot programmes with Transport for Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and Bristol City Council to support the development of its Local Authority Advisory Function. UKIB has processes in place to regularly review progress on these pilots and identify replicable elements of these projects, with a view to disseminating this knowledge to a wider pool of local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Bank is operationally independent but has developed an open dialogue with both HM Treasury and BEIS, including sharing their experiences of the development of their advisory and local lending functions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the first Strategic Steer to UKIB published in March of this year, the then-Chancellor set expectations that the UKIB should work constructively with government and institutions in each nation of the UK to maximise the impact of its investments and to develop a nuanced understanding of market characteristics, so investments can be targeted appropriately.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 21/12/2022 10:33:58 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon