Question follow-through · 111685
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the datasets and data sources that have been used to calculate the settlements for individual local authorities in the Local Government Finance Settlement.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 9 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 16 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the datasets and data sources that have been used to calculate the settlements for individual local authorities in the Local Government Finance Settlement.
11 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Feb 2026
Answer published
Details on how funding allocations were calculated, including datasets and sources, were published in the Final Local Government Finance Settlement 2026-2027 to 2028-2029, under the methodology for the Fair Funding Review reforms section, linked here.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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