Wigan Council: Coronavirus
(asked on 11th February 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the cumulative total is of covid-19 related funding allocated to Wigan Council.
Wigan Council has so far received almost £28 million of emergency grant funding since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as part of its share of the £4.6 billion of unringfenced support to councils across the country.
Wigan has also received £9.3 million through the Contain Outbreak Management Fund, £5.7 million through the Infection Control Fund, £3.1 million via the sales, fees and charges income support scheme and £1.1 million via the Covid Winter Grant Scheme. This additional £19.2 million of support alongside almost £3 million of other grant funding to Wigan comes to a cumulative total of £50.1 million of funding since the start of the Pandemic.
In addition, Wigan Council will receive over £9 million in unringfenced funding to address the impacts of COVID-19 in the next financial year. This is alongside an increase in settlement Core Spending Power up to over £11 million.
Source of COVID-19 Support | Allocated to Wigan (£m) |
Total COVID-19 Additional Funding for LAs for 2020/21 (£m) | 28.0 |
Further Direct Support - 20/21 | |
COMF - Test and Trace Service Support Grant (£m) | 2.4 |
COMF - Additional Surge Funding (£m) | 6.9 |
ASC Infection Control Fund(Round 1 and 2)(£m) | 5.7 |
ASC Workforce Capacity Fund (£m) | 0.8 |
ASC Rapid Testing Fund (£m) | 0.7 |
Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) Funding (£m) | 0.2 |
Compliance and Enforcement Grant (£m) | 0.2 |
Reopening High Streets Safely Fund (£m) | 0.3 |
Provisional Rough Sleeping emergency funding (£m) | 0.006 |
Next Steps Accommodation Programme (NSAP) (£m) | 0.3 |
Local Authority Emergency Assistance Grant for Food and Essential Supplies (£m) | 0.4 |
DWP Covid Winter Grant Scheme (£m) | 1.1 |
Sales, Fees and Charges Compensation Scheme (£m) | 3.1 |
Total direct COVID-19 funding for Wigan for 2020/21 (£m) | 50.1 |
Settlement | |
Annual Change (£m) | 11.3 |
Annual Change (%) | 4.7% |
21/22 Funding | |
Additional Unringfenced Tranche Funding for 2021/22 | 9.5 |