Question follow-through · 44400
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for local authorities for the 2025-26 financial year.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 7 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for local authorities for the 2025-26 financial year.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Local Government Finance Settlement for 2025-26 makes available over £69 billion for local government, which is a 6.8% cash terms increase in councils’ Core Spending Power on 2024-25. Taken together, the additional funding announced by the Chancellor ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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