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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of its total annual budget Lancashire County Council received from the Local Government Grant (Local Government Finance Settlement), for each budget heading, in 2016-17; and what such proportion, by budget heading, that council has been allocated to receive in 2017-18.

For 2016-17, Lancashire received £118.8 million in Revenue Support Grant (RSG) as part of the Local Government Finance Settlement. Lancashire had a budgeted Revenue Expenditure of £1.7 billion in 2016-17. RSG was equivalent to 7.1% of this budgeted figure.

For 2017-18, Lancashire is provisionally set to receive £81.5 million in RSG. Local authority budget figures are not available for 2017-18. Budget Revenue Account figures are scheduled to be published in the summer.

Revenue Support Grant is un-hypothecated. The funding has no specific conditions attached to it and any spend on services financed by the grant is not ring-fenced.

Local authorities are best placed to assess, deliver and take decisions on financing the services their communities need, and are locally accountable for those decisions.