Coronavirus: Disease Control

(asked on 30th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities subject to Tier 3 local covid-19 alert level restrictions are able to balance their budgets in financial year 2020-21.


Answered by
Luke Hall Portrait
Luke Hall
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 4th November 2020

Government has provided £6.4 billion directly to councils to help them support their communities in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and is now providing additional funding to support the recent announcement of additional national restrictions. The Government has also introduced a co-payment scheme, designed to help local authorities recoup some of the?irrecoverable losses in sales, fees and charges?income?in 2020/21.

We recognise that even with the considerable support already provided, there will be individual authorities with either unique circumstances or residual issues resulting in unmanageable pressures. We will continue to work with local government to ensure they are managing as the pandemic progresses and that we have a collective understanding of the costs they are facing. We would ask that any local authority who is concerned about their financial position, or ability to set a balanced budget, should approach MHCLG for discussion.

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