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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an estimate of the (a) additional expenditure incurred and (b) revenue lost by local authorities as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

On 25 January, MHCLG published a summary of results from the first eight rounds of the local authority COVID-19 financial monitoring survey. These rounds of the survey collected financial data from March until December 2020 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-covid-19-financial-impact-monitoring-information ).