Local Government Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish a complete list of definitions for all variables and data used in the Fair Funding Review.
Answered by Alison McGovern
Details on how the various formulae were calculated, including data and variables, were published in the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement 2026-2027 to 2028-2029 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/provisional-local-government-finance-settlement-2026-2027-to-2028-29 These can be found in the supporting documents, in the ‘Methodology for the Fair Funding Review reforms’ section.
The provisional Settlement confirmed that the Recovery Grant, used to target funding at the most deprived places that suffered the most from historic funding cuts, will continue over the multi-year period. The method used to distribute the Recovery Grant to Local Authorities remains the same as last year and can be found in the published Technical note on Recovery Grant Methodology 2025- 2026, found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technical-note-on-recovery-grant-methodology-2025-to-2026
The government will consider all responses to the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement consultation and set out the details of any changes in the response that will be published alongside at the final Settlement.
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