Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether Cheshire West and Chester Council is eligible to bid for additional housing revenue account borrowing.
On 26 June the Secretary of State invited local authorities in high affordability pressure areas to bid for the £1 billion additional borrowing programme. The prospectus inviting bids sets out which local authorities are eligible to bid. Chester and Cheshire West Borough Council is not eligible to bid as it does not meet the definition of affordability pressure as set out in the prospectus.