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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on how much was spent on (a) staffing and (b) members' remuneration by each local authority area in Cumbria in (i) 2012-13, (ii) 2013-14 and (iii) 2014-15.

Statistics on employee expenditure in each local authority are published online in the Revenue Outturn Service Expenditure Summary, which is available at the following link:

http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing

Data is not currently available for 2014-15.

This Department does not hold centrally the level of member’s remuneration by local authority.