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1719700

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with (a) HM Treasure and (b) the Prime Minister's Office on the local government funding settlement.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	27321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare question first answered 24/05/2024 11:24:18 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1715742

registered interest
date	02/05/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to fully implement the changes to the Needs Assessment component of the funding formula made in 2013; and subsequently whether they will increase funding to rural councils to reflect inflation in the years since these changes were made.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL4354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>The final Local Government Finance Settlement for 2024-25 makes available up to £64.7 billion, an increase in Core Spending Power of up to £4.5 billion or 7.5% in cash terms on 2023-24. This above-inflation increase demonstrates how the Government stands behind councils up and down the country. Furthermore, we recognise the importance and difficulties of councils serving dispersed populations. That is why we have increased the value of the Rural Services Delivery Grant by over 15%, from £95 million to £110 million in 2024-25. This is the highest increase since 2018-19, and the second successive year of above-inflation increases.</p><p> </p><p>We last calculated the Settlement Funding Assessment in 2013/14. The Government is committed to reforming the local government funding landscape in the next Parliament to deliver simpler, fairer and longer settlements.</p><p> </p><p>The Rural Services Delivery Grant is allocated to local authorities ranking in the top-quartile of sparsely populated areas in England, using the Government’s ‘Super Sparsity’ measure. The methodology is unchanged from 2023-24 and any funding decisions beyond the 2024-25 financial year are a matter for the next Spending Review.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook grouped question UIN HL4352 HL4353 question first answered 15/05/2024 15:22:02 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1701955

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish the average mayoral precept in each mayoral authority.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Nicola Richards
uin	22434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government publishes data on the average Band D council tax set by each individual authority - including mayoral combined authorities - in the annual council tax levels publication. Band D is used as the standard for comparing council tax levels between and across local authorities. Individual local authorities also publish further details about their council tax charges.</p><p>The average Band D council tax set by each local authority for 2024-25 are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average council tax for the authority (Band D) – general functions of the mayor £</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average council tax for the Authority (Band D) – Police and Crime Commissioner functions of the mayor £</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>0.00</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>112.95 (Note 1)</p></td><td><p>256.30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire and Peterborough</p></td><td><p>36.00</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool City Region</p></td><td><p>19.00</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North of Tyne</p></td><td><p>0.00 (Note 2)</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>0.00</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tees Valley</p></td><td><p>0.00</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>0.00</p></td><td><p>249.28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater London Authority</p></td><td><p>166.27 (Note 3)</p></td><td><p>305.13</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Note 1: Greater Manchester’s general functions includes the responsibility for Fire and Rescue provision. This is not the case for any other Authority and so the figure is not directly comparable.</em></p><p><em>Note 2: The North of Tyne Combined Authority will be replaced by the newly established North East Mayoral Combined Authority.</em></p><p><em>Note 3: Greater London Authority is not a Combined Authority and therefore the Mayor has different roles and responsibilities which are not directly comparable.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Redcar answering member printed Jacob Young question first answered 29/04/2024 14:37:29 answering member 4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young
tabling member	4868 label Biography information for Nicola Richards

1694572

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing funding for local government in the Spring Budget 2024.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The Chancellor and Chief Secretary hold regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on spending priorities for fiscal events.</p><p>Local councils play an essential role in the fabric of our country – providing services which we all rely on and supporting some of the most vulnerable people in our communities.</p><p>That is why the final Local Government Finance Settlement for 2024-25 makes available up to £64.7 billion in total for local authorities in England, which includes the £600 million of additional measures that was announced on 24 January in response to representations from local government stakeholders. This is an increase in overall Core Spending Power of 7.5%, or up to £4.5 billion, on 2023-24, an above-inflation increase.</p><p>The Government is continuing to support all councils by providing a sector-wide Funding Guarantee, ensuring all local authorities see a minimum 4% increase in Core Spending Power before local council tax decisions.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 15/03/2024 10:58:35 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1687773

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending local government funding settlements to place greater weight on need than local tax raising ability.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	13352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The local government finance system operates a needs-based approach. Funding allocations in the Local Government Finance Settlement reflect local circumstances, such as the demand for services from the local population and the cost of delivering those services in that authority. Funding allocations also take into account the differing ability for each council to raise revenue from council tax.</p><p>The Government committed to prioritise stability and certainty for local government when we published the local government finance policy statement on 12 December 2022.</p><p>However, the Government is committed to reforming the local government funding landscape in the next Parliament.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare question first answered 12/02/2024 11:49:05 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1687774

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending local government funding settlements to increase the proportion of Services Grants provided.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	13353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The Local Government Finance Settlement 2024-25 was published on 5 February and confirmed that the Services Grant will continue in 2024-25 and will be worth £87 million. The Services Grant has increased by £10 million from the amount consulted on in the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement 2024-25.</p><p>We know that local authorities value multi-year certainty, as this allows them to plan spending over the longer term. It is the Government’s intention to return to multi-year settlements in the next Parliament, when circumstances allow.</p><p>In 2022, the Government confirmed reforms to the funding formula would not be implemented in this spending review after hearing calls from councils for stability. The Government remains committed to improving the local government finance landscape.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare grouped question UIN 13354 13355 question first answered 12/02/2024 11:45:50 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1687775

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of multi-year funding settlements for local government.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	13354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The Local Government Finance Settlement 2024-25 was published on 5 February and confirmed that the Services Grant will continue in 2024-25 and will be worth £87 million. The Services Grant has increased by £10 million from the amount consulted on in the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement 2024-25.</p><p>We know that local authorities value multi-year certainty, as this allows them to plan spending over the longer term. It is the Government’s intention to return to multi-year settlements in the next Parliament, when circumstances allow.</p><p>In 2022, the Government confirmed reforms to the funding formula would not be implemented in this spending review after hearing calls from councils for stability. The Government remains committed to improving the local government finance landscape.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare grouped question UIN 13353 13355 question first answered 12/02/2024 11:45:50 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1687778

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of determining the local government funding (a) formula and (b) settlements by an independent body.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	13355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The Local Government Finance Settlement 2024-25 was published on 5 February and confirmed that the Services Grant will continue in 2024-25 and will be worth £87 million. The Services Grant has increased by £10 million from the amount consulted on in the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement 2024-25.</p><p>We know that local authorities value multi-year certainty, as this allows them to plan spending over the longer term. It is the Government’s intention to return to multi-year settlements in the next Parliament, when circumstances allow.</p><p>In 2022, the Government confirmed reforms to the funding formula would not be implemented in this spending review after hearing calls from councils for stability. The Government remains committed to improving the local government finance landscape.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare grouped question UIN 13353 13354 question first answered 12/02/2024 11:45:50 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1685707

registered interest
date	29/01/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what process they are using to determine the allocation for (1) social care, (2) funding guarantees, and (3) grants, under their plans to provide an additional £600 million funding to councils.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL2010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p>On the 24<sup>th</sup> of January, the department announced our intention to increase the level of funding to local government in the Settlement by £600 million. Taking into account this new funding, local government in England will see an increase in Core Spending Power of up to £4.5 billion next year, taking the total to £64.7 billion in 2024-25.</p><p>£500 million of this new funding will be distributed to councils with responsibility for Social Care services through the Social Care Grant. The Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formula is the basis for Social Care Grant allocations and is used to evaluate local authorities’ need for funding relative to one another. We are supporting all of local government through the sector-wide Funding Guarantee, ensuring all local authorities will see a minimum 4% increase in Core Spending Power before local council tax decisions – an increase from the 3% Funding Guarantee in 2023-24.</p><p>Finally, we are increasing the Rural Services Delivery Grant to £110 million in 2024-25, its highest ever level. The distribution of this grant will remain unchanged next year, and will continue to be distributed to the top-quartile of local authorities ranked by ‘super-sparsity’, a measure of rurality.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 08/02/2024 14:10:44 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1685327

registered interest
date	26/01/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to publish the uplift in local authority funding for each local authority.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	11634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>As set out in the <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-01-24/debates/24012473000012/LocalGovernmentFinance?highlight=local" target="_blank">Secretary of State's Written Ministerial Statement on 24 January 2024</a>, the final Local Government Finance Settlement will be published in full early next month, including individual local authority allocations, and the statutory reports which comprise the Settlement will be subject to debate in the House of Commons shortly after.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare question first answered 31/01/2024 15:17:17 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell