PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Low Incomes: Discretionary Grants (7 February 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether local authorities will receive central Government funding for the additional administrative costs incurred in the rollout of the £144 million discretionary fund for vulnerable people and individuals on low incomes that do not pay council tax or that pay council tax for properties in Bands E-H.

Asked by:
Dame Meg Hillier (Labour)

The Government will provide new burdens funding to local authorities to cover reasonable administrative costs incurred in delivering the council tax rebate scheme and the associated discretionary fund.

Answered by:
Neil O'Brien (Conservative)
10 February 2022