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date	20/07/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what direct funding the Government has made available to Town and Parish Councils to cover the financial costs incurred by those councils as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	76594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2020 answer text <p>On 2 July, the Secretary of State announced an additional £500 million of support for councils. This is in addition to the £3.2 billion announced in April, taking the total given to councils to help their communities through the crisis to over £3.7 billion in unringfenced funding, an unprecedented level of additional financial support in recent times. This grant is unringfenced, recognising that local authorities are best placed to decide how to meet the major Covid-19 service pressures in their local area.</p><p>The Government does not have powers to offer direct financial support to parish and town councils, which are funded through a precept collected from within the overall council tax paid by the residents of the parish or town. We therefore encourage parish and town councils to work with their principal authority (district or unitary council) where they are delivering vital services that have been impacted by Covid-19.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 27/07/2020 15:04:05 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

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registered interest
date	07/07/2020
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what fiscal plans he has to help mitigate reductions in local authorities business rates revenue as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	70322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2020 answer text <p>On the 2 July my Department laid a written statement on a wide-ranging package of further financial support to ensure local government can continue to fulfil its essential role in the national response to COVID-19. This includes a commitment to support the sector through an apportionment of irrecoverable business rates losses between central and local government, to be agreed at the Spending Review. The Government has also announced that the repayment of collection fund deficits arising in 2020-21, for example because of a reduction in local revenue from business rates, will be spread over the next three years rather than the usual period of a year, giving councils breathing space in setting budgets for next year.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 14/07/2020 14:53:01 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett