Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy of levels of funding for Local Authority Trading Schemes and (b) effect of levels of funding for those schemes on their ability to support consumer rights.

Local authorities are independent from central government and are responsible for determining their resourcing priorities in accordance with the needs of the local electorate. In England, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities decides on the local government finance settlement.