Question follow-through · 49994
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to improve funding for local councils.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 2 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 6 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
2 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to improve funding for local councils.
7 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
The government is committed to fixing the foundations of local government. In 2025-26 we targeted additional funding in the Local Government Finance Settlement to places with the greatest need and demand for services and less ability to raise income local...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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