Guidance

Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund 2025 to 2026

Sets out the guidance to support local authorities in administering the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund in 2025 to 2026.

From:
Department of Health and Social Care
Published
2 May 2025
Last updated
15 May 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund 2025 to 2026: main guidance

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Annex A: provisional reporting templates and guidance

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Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund 2025 to 2026: initial reporting template

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 154 KB

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Details

This guidance is intended to support local authorities in administering the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund (MSIF) in 2025 to 2026.

It should be read alongside the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund grant determination 2025 to 2026.

The ‘Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund 2025 to 2026: initial reporting template’ combines the MSIF final 2024 to 2025 report and the MSIF initial 2025 to 2026 report.

Local authorities will need to complete and return the report to the Department of Health and Social Care by 11:59pm on 11 June 2025.

Updates to this page

Published 2 May 2025
Last updated 15 May 2025 show all updates

  1. Added links to the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund grant determination 2025 to 2026 on the landing page and in the main guidance.

  2. Updated the reporting template to amend local authority names for consistency.

  3. Funding allocation data for 2024 to 2025 on the reporting template has been corrected.

  4. First published.

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