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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the level of funding reductions for Local Authority Trading Schemes in each of the last 12 years.

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.