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Written Question
Local Government Finance
Thursday 3rd March 2016

Asked by: Ivan Lewis (Independent - Bury South)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what criteria his Department uses to determine the level of supplementary funding provided to local authorities as part of the local government finance settlement.

Answered by Marcus Jones

The local government finance settlement distributed revenue support grant by looking at the main resources that are available to local councils. The Local Government Finance Report (England) 2016/2017 sets out the basis of this distribution and the results can be found at;


https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2016-to-2017.

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