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Local Government Finance: Disadvantaged

Commons · Question 36954 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 13 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Jas Athwal

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure areas with higher levels of deprivation receive adequate funding.

Answer

Answered by Jim McMahon, 13 Mar 2025

The final Local Government Finance Settlement for 2025-26 makes available over £69 billion for local government in England, which is a cash-terms increase of 6.8% in Core Spending Power on 2024-25. The most relatively deprived areas of England will receiv...