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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has allocated to the London Borough of Redbridge in each year since 2010.

We have spent over £80 million to support integration and faith since 2010.

Some of our funded programmes, such as Near Neighbours, have delivered projects and events in the London Borough of Redbridge to support local inter faith work.

In addition, the London Borough of Redbridge received £249,527 from the ESOL for Integration Fund in 20/21 to provide community-based English language sessions, clubs and activities to residents with little or no English who will be from diverse faith groups.

However, to supply the information for all our funding streams for the previous ten years would involve a disproportionate cost to my Department.

Most of the funding in the Local Government Finance Settlement (LGFS) is unringfenced, and councils are free to choose to which local priorities to spend it on, including work with faith communities, and other projects to support integration and communities.

This year’s LGFS, including a breakdown of Core Spending Power (CSP) for each local authority, including the London Borough of Redbridge, going back to 2015/16 can be found in the supporting information document here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2021-to-2022

Core Spending Power was introduced in 2015. Comparisons before that date do not apply, because the system of local government finance changed, councils’ responsibilities changed and because grants have been incorporated into the annual Settlement over time.