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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an estimate of the total amount of additional financial support provided through (a) each local authority tier, (b) the local fire and rescue service and (c) the police in (i) County Durham and (ii) Surrey.

The local government finance settlement for 2020-21 responded to the pressures councils are facing by providing access to the largest year-on-year increase in spending power since 2010. In addition to this, the Government has provided local authorities with an unprecedented package of support to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, allocating £4.8bn of support for?spending?pressures, including £3.7 billion of un-ringfenced grants and the £1.1 billion Infection Control Fund.

Details of funding allocations provided by the local government finance settlement for the last 10 years, as well as allocations of emergency support provided across the course of the pandemic and support for the police service, can be found on the gov.uk website.