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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government which were the 25 most deprived local authorities according to the English Indices of Deprivation 2015, and what policies they have agreed to target resources on each of those areas to tackle that deprivation.

The Department for Communities and Local Government publishes the English Indices of Deprivation which measure the relative deprivation of neighbourhoods across England. This includes the Index of Multiple Deprivation, which is most commonly used to identify deprived areas. The department also publishes summary measures of relative deprivation among local authorities.

All the data for the English Indices of Deprivation 2015 (attached) can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2015.

The department does not specifically target the 25 most deprived local authorities but deprivation is taken into account in the design of some of its policies. For example, the Troubled Families Programme takes account of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010 in estimating the numbers of families facing multiple problems in upper-tier local authorities.