PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Local Government Finance: North East (17 November 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average change in spending power for (a) all councils and (b) local authorities in the North East between 2013-14 and 2014-15.

Asked by:
Sir Alan Campbell (Labour)

The average reduction in spending power between 2013-14 and 2014-15 for England excluding Great London Authority was 2.9%. My Department does not produce regional statistics. The local government finance system does not operate on a regional basis, and the Government Office Regions have been abolished.

Figures for individual local authorities are published at the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/277394/Spending_Power_by_dwelling_final_settlement.xls

Answered by:
Kris Hopkins (Conservative)
24 November 2014