Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes in the level of Government funding for the Citizens Advice Service in (a) Coventry and (b) the West Midlands in the last five years.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) provides an annual core grant to Citizen Advice (CitA), the umbrella body for the Citizen Advice Service in England and Wales to support the delivery of essential central services to the local Citizens Advice offices.

BEIS does not hold information about local Citizens Advice Service funding. Central Government does not provide funding directly to local individual Citizens Advice offices, core funding for which is usually provided by the local authority in which they are located.