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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2018 to Question 138439 on local government finance, and with reference to Questions 245 to 259 of the evidence given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Treasury Committee on 25 April 2015, how his Department defines the term at risk with reference to local authority funding.

We consider a wide range of information around individual local authorities in order to form judgements about the scale of challenge they may face.

Local authorities that we judge in the near future that may not be able to continue to deliver a consistent quality of service across a range of priorities due to financial pressures or any other reason are considered to be at risk.