Asked by: Giles Watling (Conservative - Clacton)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
What steps his Department is taking to ensure fairness in the allocation of funding to local government.
Answered by Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
We are undertaking a Fair Funding Review of local authorities’ relative needs and resources to address concerns about the fairness of the current system.
We are making good progress, in collaboration with the sector, in order to introduce a simpler, fair and transparent funding formula.