Asked by: Yuan Yang (Labour - Earley and Woodley)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's consultation outcome document entitled Provisional local government finance settlement 2025 to 2026 consultation: summary of responses, published 3 February 2025, for how long will the multi-year settlements from financial year 2026-27 last.
Answered by Jim McMahon - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
The government is pursuing a comprehensive set of reforms for public services to return the local government sector to a sustainable position. We know that the sector has long called for long-term certainty on its budgets. That is why the government is committed to providing a multi-year funding settlement starting in 2026-27. This will be the first multi-year settlement since 2016 and will provide local authorities with the certainty they need to focus on their priorities. The timings of the Local Government Finance Settlement are bound by the Spending Review cycle. We will set out further information in due course after the conclusion of the Spending Review on 11 June 2025.