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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, by which formula the £150 million transition grant was allocated to local authorities; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of that grant in achieving its aims.

My department has published an explanatory note on the method of allocation of the Transition Grant for 2016/17. A copy has been placed in the library of both Houses and it available to view at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/510870/Explanatory_note_on_the_allocation_of_the_Transition_Grant.pdf