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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2016 to Question 52707, on local government finance, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the £150 million transition grant in achieving its aims.

The explanatory note on the method of allocation of the Transition Grant for 2016/17 makes clear that the grant is being provided to authorities to ease the change from a system based on central government grant to one in which local sources determine a council’s revenue by compensating them in direct proportion to the difference between the old methodology and new methodology. The allocations are in exact proportion to this difference and so the grant achieves its aim.