Question follow-through · 18863

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to address funding shortfalls faced by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service in the context of the redistribution of the (a) Funding Guarantee Scheme and (b) Serv

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
11 Dec 2024
Answer
17 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to address funding shortfalls faced by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service in the context of the redistribution of the (a) Funding Guarantee Scheme and (b) Serv

  2. 11 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    Funding allocations for 2025/26 will be set out at the Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement in December 2024. The Government has guaranteed that no local authority will see a reduction in their Core Spending Power in 2025-26 after taking accoun...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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