questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department is taking steps to help improve (a) transparency and (b) communications with local residents on the financial situations of their councils.
answerText: The department has engaged regularly with Birmingham City Council, including in recent months over the pressures it faces around its failed implementation of the Oracle IT system and its unresolved equal pay liability. We have expressed serious concern ov...
heading: Local Government Finance: Disclosure of Information