Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire will receive funding from the Recovery Grant, announced on 28 November 2024.

The newly announced £600 million Recovery Grant, part of the provisional 2025-26 Local Government Finance Settlement, is part of the careful balance this Government is making between meeting the current, acute pressures and taking meaningful steps towards a fundamental update of the system that will improve sector sustainability as a whole. The Recovery Grant will go to places where, weighted by population, deprivation outweighs council tax raising ability.

The government is also clear that the outcomes of this grant will not reflect the final outcome of reform which will be based on a full, broader assessment of need and will not be based on deprivation alone.

Both Lincolnshire County Council and South Kestevan District Council will not receive funding from the Recovery Grant. South Holland District Council will receive £0.2 million. Although not all councils will receive allocations from the Recovery Grant, it is only one part of the 2025-26 Settlement, which will be worth £69 billion and will ensure that no council will see a decrease in Core Spending Power.