Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has plans to resume issuing multi-year financial settlements to local councils.
We know that local authorities value multi-year certainty, as this allows them to plan spending over the longer term. That is why, in 2022, the Government published the local government finance policy statement , providing councils greater certainty on key aspects of their funding for the next two years to the end of this Spending Review. It is the Government’s intention to return to multi-year settlements in the next Parliament, when circumstances allow.