Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Adam Jogee and Marie Tidball

Monday 14th July 2025 Commons Chamber

[Adam Jogee (Newcastle-under-Lyme) (Lab)]

10. What steps her Department is taking to ensure that areas with higher levels of deprivation receive adequate funding.

[Dr Marie Tidball (Penistone and Stocksbridge) (Lab)]

18. What steps her Department is taking to ensure that areas with higher levels of deprivation receive adequate funding.

[The Minister for Local Government and English Devolution (Jim McMahon)]

We are committed to improving how we assess need to ensure that central Government funding is distributed fairly to the places that need it most. We began at the last settlement with the £600 million recovery grant, and subject to the fair funding review 2.0 consultation, our proposed reforms mean that the most relatively deprived places will see larger increases in income than the least deprived places.