Written questions

Local Government Finance: Devolution

Commons · Question 58764 · Tabled 10 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 18 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to create delineated funding mechanisms for different tiers of local government in the proposed English Devolution Bill.

Answer

Answered by Jim McMahon, 18 Jun 2025

The government has no plans to create further delineated funding mechanisms for different tiers of local government in the proposed English Devolution Bill. The English Devolution White Paper set out that where a Strategic Authority takes on powers which ...