Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to his statement yesterday, UIN HCWS469, on Local Government Finance, whether he took steps to ensure his proposals adequately reflected population increases identified in the Census 2021 such as the 14 per cent increase in population in the London Borough of Newham in the period 2011-2021.

I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to this letter from Jeremy Pocklington, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, to the Public Accounts Committee, which sets out the interaction between census data and local government finance.