questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release entitled £78bn for councils in turning point settlement to cut deprivation, published on 17 December 2025, whether any of the £78 billion will be used to clear Essex County Council’s debts.
answerText: The government is making good on long overdue promises to fundamentally update the way we fund local authorities, realigning funding with need and deprivation through the first multi-year Local Government Finance Settlement in a decade. We are introducing...
heading: Essex County Council: Debts