questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the presence of (a) United States visiting forces and (b) their dependents on local government finances in West Suffolk; and if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of direct compensation to affected councils.
answerText: The different relative strengths of the tax bases of councils in England are taken into account in the Local Government Finance Settlement through the Settlement Funding Assessment (SFA) formula, which is used to calculate the SFA allocation that each aut...
heading: Armed Forces: West Suffolk