Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether funds made available to local authorities to support covid-19-related work are allocated under the provisions of the National Assistance Act 1948.
MHCLG has provided unringfenced funding for local government to support their response to the COVID-19 pandemic using the powers provided by section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003.