PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Environmental Health (4 December 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of recent changes in the level of Government funding to local authorities on the effectiveness of local authority environmental health teams.

Asked by:
Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour)

Over the five-year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20 councils will have access to more than £200 billion. It is for local authorities to determine how to spend this and the other sources of income they receive on the services that they provide, including Environmental Health, taking account of local needs and priorities.

Answered by:
Rishi Sunak (Conservative)
10 December 2018