Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of local authorities' budgets have been spent on children's services by (a) Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, (b) local authorities in the North East and (c) local authorities in England in each of the last five years.
Annual expenditure data by each local authority for all services, including children’s services, are published on the Department’s website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing