Local Government: Borrowing

(asked on 27th October 2026) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the £1.5billion borrowing facility for Mayors available from 2028 represents the total funding available across all eligible mayoral authorities or the amount available to each individual mayoral authorities.


Answered by
Jim McMahon Portrait
Jim McMahon
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
This question was answered on 2nd November 2026

Government has allocated a total of £1.5 billion in financial transactions to set up the devolved borrowing facility for Mayoral Strategic Authorities, which will be available from 2028. The total quantum is scored across 28/29-31/32 – the profile for this is set out in table 6.2 on page 109 of the Budget document which can be found here.

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