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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated to local authority planning departments in each of the last ten financial years.

The majority of funding in the Local Government Finance Settlement is unringfenced recognising that local leaders are best placed to identify local priorities.

Local authorities routinely publish their spending information in Revenue Outturn data, which includes information on how much money they have spent on planning services. The latest Revenue Outturn information can be found on gov.uk here: Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2022 to 2023 individual local authority data - outturn - GOV.UK