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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will list the 10 local authorities with the greatest real terms reduction in central government funding since 2010.

Due to changes in the finance and function of local government, there is no consistent measure of central government funding since 2010. The Department’s preferred measure of local government funding is Core Spending Power. Core Spending power is comparable over the period 2015-16 to 2019-20 and published in cash terms on the Department's website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2019-to-2020

The 10 local authorities with the greatest reduction in Core Spending Power over the period 2015-16 to 2019-20 are listed below:

Basingstoke and Deane

Brentwood

East Cambridgeshire

Epsom and Ewell

Forest Heath

Gedling

Huntingdonshire

North Dorset

St Albans

Watford