West Midlands Combined Authority: Finance

(asked on 24th November 2016) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much grant funding West Midlands Combined Authority will receive in financial year 2017-18 for (a) adult education, (b) transport, (c) the Work and Health Programme, (d) business support and (e) any other sources of funding by grant.


Answered by
Andrew Percy Portrait
Andrew Percy
This question was answered on 29th November 2016

The West Midlands Combined Authority will receive a total of £70 million grant funding in 2017/18. This is separate to the funding that local authorities receive individually and is broken down as follows:

(a) Adult education: £Nil

(b) Transport: £33.5 million

(c) Work and Health Programme: £Nil

(d) Business support: £Nil

(e) Any other sources of funding by grant: £36.5 million (Gain share)

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