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

What recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of changes in the level of local government funding on the most deprived areas.

The provisional settlement gives access to an extra £2.9 billion, the biggest year-on-year increase in a decade. This Government will ensure that this money is going to the right places – and the most deprived will get three times the spending power per home in government grants than the least deprived.