questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to Local authority capital expenditure and receipts in England: 2024 to 2025 final outturn, Published 6 November 2025, what proportion of the £3.0 billion of total capital receipts in 2024-25 was subject to the Flexible Use of Capital Receipts direction that allows such receipts to spent on revenue expenditure.
answerText: The Flexible Use of Capital Receipts general direction was introduced in 2016 by the previous government and remains substantively unchanged. The total value of capital receipts received by local authorities in 2024-25 was £4.3 billion, as reported on gov...
heading: Local Government Finance