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Asked by Sir James CleverlyConservativeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 30 June 2026UIN 12702

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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Answer 24 March 2026 to Question 121214 on Local Government Finance, if he will list the full title of each individual dataset whose data is used within the formulas for the Local Government Finance Settlement, and the period of time that the collected data was for in the data used in the most recent settlement.

Answered by Alison McGovern

I refer the Rt Hon Member to the answer given to Question UIN 121214 on 24 March 2026. Details on how funding allocations were calculated, including datasets and sources, were published as part of the final Local Government Settlement on 9 February 2026. The time period for each of the published datasets is set out in the technical methodology notes available at gov.uk here.

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