PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Local Government Finance (15 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to provide additional funding to support local authorities' to take account of changes in the Summer Budget 2015 which will (a) increase the minimum wage and (b) reduce the rents paid by social tenants.

Asked by:
Mr Toby Perkins (Labour)

The impact of the new National Living Wage on local authority finances will be considered during the Spending Review as part of an overall assessment of spending pressures on local authorities.

We believe that local authorities should be able to manage the reduction in rents paid by social tenants, but will be engaging with them as they develop their plans to meet their reductions. We will consider later in the year whether any council needs any particular support to manage their business plans, above that already provided through sector-led support.

Answered by:
Mr Marcus Jones (Conservative)
21 July 2015