PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(4 March 2025)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recommendations of the National Audit Office's report entitled Local Government Financial Sustainability, published on 28 February 2025.

Asked by:
Vikki Slade (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

The government recognises many of the themes identified by the National Audit Office in their recently published report entitled Local Government Financial Sustainability.

I refer the hon. Member to the written statement made by my rt. hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne on 3 February 2025 (HCWS413), which sets out the action the government is taking through the 2025-26 Local Government Finance Settlement to bring long-term stability and certainty to the local government sector.


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