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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department is planning to provide additional financial support to local authorities in England after June 2021.

The Government has allocated over £12 billion directly to councils since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, to ensure they are able to meet the additional expenditure and income pressures in their area.

We will continue to work with local government as the pandemic progresses, including through specially tailored financial monitoring, to ensure we understand the pressures they are experiencing. We would ask that any local authority faced with unmanageable pressures or with concerns about their future financial position should approach MHCLG for discussion.  Future financial support for councils will be determined as part of the planned Spending Review later this year.