PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Local Government Finance: Coronavirus (27 April 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of additional support required by local government in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the UK in response to the covid-19 outbreak.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

Allocations of the £1.6 billion support for councils to respond to Covid-19 were announced on Tuesday 28 April. This is a significant package of support which responds to the range of pressures councils have told us they are facing, and takes the total amount provided to local councils to over £3.2 billion. Across both waves of funding, almost 70 per cent of district councils will receive £1 million or more in support, whilst 90 per cent of the funding will go to social care authorities.

Of this, Lincolnshire County Council has received over £35 million, and district councils in Lincolnshire have also received funding: South Holland has received over £1 million across both waves of funding, for example.

Answered by:
Sir Simon Clarke (Conservative)
5 May 2020