Question follow-through · 23802
Local Government Services: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the additional costs of providing council services in rural areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate her Department has made of the additional costs of providing council services in rural areas.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
This government is committed to tackling the issues that matter to rural councils in England. Places with a significant rural population will on average receive around a 5% increase in their Core Spending Power next year, which is a real terms increase. N...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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