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 138440, on Local Government Finance, what processes his Department has in place to provide assurance on the sustainability of individual local authorities.

We have processes in place to provide assurance around the sustainability of individual local authorities as set out in the Accounting Officer system statement: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dclg-accounting-officer-system-statement

Assurance advice is provided to the Accounting Officer every 6 months that sets out how the accountability framework is performing. This advice is informed by an on going programme of work, to assess sustainability risks, both at a sector and individual authority level.