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Local Government Services: Finance

Commons · Question 22380 · Tabled 7 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 15 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by David Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 27 December 2024 to Question 20641 on Local Government Services: Rural Area, what the (a) cash (b) real terms and (c) proportional change in core spendi

Answer

Answered by Jim McMahon, 15 Jan 2025

The provisional Settlement for 2025-26 makes available £69 billion for local government, which is a 3.5% real terms increase in councils’ Core Spending Power on 2024-25. The final Settlement will increase further, to incorporate the £515 million of fundin...