questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a (a) centralised resource and (b) support centre for councils facing financial distress.
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