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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on additional funding to enable local authorities to administer effectively discretionary payments under the covid-19 self-isolation support scheme.

Policy and funding for the Test and Trace Support Payment Scheme is the responsibility of the Department for Health and Social Care. MHCLG Ministers and officials regularly engage with counterparts in HMT and with local authorities on matters relating to local authorities’ finances.