What assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of potential changes to the funding formula for local authorities?
Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
| Answered on 31/10/2024
The then Minister for Finance and Local Government set out the programme of work on the local government funding formula by Written Statement in March this year. Progress on this work was discussed in the Local Government Finance Sub-group on the 22nd October noting that more data has been updated following the 2021 census and further work is underway on the larger service areas in education and social services.