Question follow-through · 36954
Local Government Finance: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure areas with higher levels of deprivation receive adequate funding.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 13 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure areas with higher levels of deprivation receive adequate funding.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Mar 2025
Answer published
The final Local Government Finance Settlement for 2025-26 makes available over £69 billion for local government in England, which is a cash-terms increase of 6.8% in Core Spending Power on 2024-25. The most relatively deprived areas of England will receiv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Urban Areas: Greater London
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Religious Hatred
12 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle hate crimes based on religion in (a) England, (b) London and (c) Ilford South constituency.
Temporary Accommodation: Greater London
17 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help support councils to provide temporary accommodation in London.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Sikhs
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Leasehold
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Leasehold: Ground Rent
22 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps is he taking to ensure that all leaseholders, including existing leaseholders, have their ground rent reduced to a peppercorn.
Leasehold: Ground Rent
22 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to help ensure that Leasehold reform will include reductions in ground levels of ground rent.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Ethnic Groups
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Jews and Sikhs
29 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether data recorded by the department classifies (a) Sikhs and (b) Jews as religious or ethnic groups.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Jews and Sikhs
29 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment their Department has made of trends in the level of discrimination faced by (a) Sikhs and (b) Jews as ethnic groups in the provision of their Department's service
Antisemitism
2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle antisemitism.