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Planning Authorities: Finance

Asked by Ben GoldsboroughLabourMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 18 December 2024UIN 19156

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated to local authority planning departments in each of the last ten financial years.

Answered by Jim McMahon

The majority of funding in the Local Government Finance Settlement is unringfenced recognising that local leaders are best placed to identify local priorities.

Local authorities routinely publish their spending information in Revenue Outturn data, which includes information on how much money they have spent on planning services. The latest Revenue Outturn information can be found on gov.uk here: Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England: 2022 to 2023 individual local authority data - outturn - GOV.UK

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