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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what criteria were used in allocating the transition grant to local authorities, in the light of the NAO report, <i>Transition grant and rural services delivery grant</i>, published in February, which found that the level of need or demand for local services was not considered when the Department for Communities and Local Government designed the grant.

My department has published an explanatory note (attached) on the method of allocation of the Transition Grant for 2016/17. A copy has been placed in the library of both Houses.