Question follow-through · 116369
Local Government Finance: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Recovery Grant Guarantee to match the national average core spending power increase.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 4 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Recovery Grant Guarantee to match the national average core spending power increase.
2 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2026
Answer published
This Settlement strengthens the relationship between deprivation and funding need. By 2028-29, the top 10% most deprived areas will receive 45% more funding per head than the least deprived. We recognised that maintaining the Recovery Grant would not be e...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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