Local Government: Elections

(asked on 23rd September 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 proportion of the £4.3 billion provided to local authorities to help deal with costs due to the covid-19 outbreak has been allocated to the cost of running the May 2021 elections.


Answered by
Luke Hall Portrait
Luke Hall
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 28th September 2020

We are providing local authorities with an unprecedented package of support, including over £4.8 billion of support for?spending?pressures, comprising £3.7 billion of un-ringfenced grants and over £1.1 billion for the Infection Control Fund.?The unringfenced funding will support the pressures?councils?have reported. We have been clear that councils should prioritise services such as adult and children’s social care, public health services and managing excess deaths.

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