Question follow-through · 25992
Local Government Finance: Shropshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will reinstate the Rural Services Delivery Grant in the next local government financial settlement for Shropshire.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 31 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will reinstate the Rural Services Delivery Grant in the next local government financial settlement for Shropshire.
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jan 2025
Answer published
The government is absolutely committed to tackling the issues that matter to rural communities. However, the Rural Services Delivery Grant did not properly account for need and a large number of predominantly rural councils receive nothing from it – that’...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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