questionText: 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.
answerText: 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...
heading: Local Government Finance: Disadvantaged