Local Government Finance: Coronavirus

(asked on 17th June 2020) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he plans to take to help ensure that local authorities do not need to set emergency budgets to reduce services as a result of increased costs and lost revenues during the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Simon Clarke Portrait
Simon Clarke
This question was answered on 22nd June 2020

The Government has provided an unprecedented £3.2 billion of additional unringfenced support to local authorities to address the pressures they are facing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is on top of the 4.4 per cent real terms increase in Core Spending Power this year.

Furthermore, as I set out to the House on Monday 15 June, the Secretary of State and I are working closely with ministerial colleagues on the further steps the Government will take as part of a comprehensive plan to ensure councils' financial sustainability over the financial year ahead. Ministers will continue to keep the House informed as these plans develop.

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