Local government spending

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Services

• Delivering Differently: expression of interest

  An application form for the Delivering Differently fund, which helps local authorities transform services through alternative delivery models.

• Delivering Differently in Neighbourhoods

  Programme supporting local authorities to redesign services to deliver at neighbourhood level – prospectus and expression of interest form.

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Guidance and regulation

• Children’s Social Care Prevention Grant Determination 2025 to 2026
  • Guidance
  • 14 May 2025
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• New burdens doctrine: guidance for government departments
  • Guidance
  • 29 July 2022
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Core Spending Power table: final local government finance settlement 2025 to 2026
  • Guidance
  • 3 February 2025
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Audit build-back grant 2024 to 2025: technical note
  • Guidance
  • 10 July 2025
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Key information table for local authorities: final local government finance settlement 2025 to 2026
  • Guidance
  • 3 February 2025
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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News and communications

• School holiday meals for more children who are most in need thanks to transformative support package
  • 13 June 2025
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release
• Government backs mayor to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport
  • 9 April 2025
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Department for Transport
  • Press release
• Overhaul of local audit will restore trust in broken system
  • 9 April 2025
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Press release
• Councils to receive exceptional support
  • 20 February 2025
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Press release
• Local Government Association Conference
  • 24 October 2024
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Speech

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Research and statistics

• Children and young people’s services formula review
  • 27 February 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Workforce Recruitment and Retention Funds: outcomes and findings
  • 26 January 2023
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Research
• Local authority COVID-19 financial impact monitoring information
  • 12 August 2022
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
  • Research
• Improved Better Care Fund: provider fee reporting, quarter 2, 2019-20
  • 17 February 2020
  • Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
  • Research
• Improved Better Care Fund 2018-19: quarterly and year-end reporting
  • 4 October 2019
  • Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Local authority funding reform: objectives and principles
  • 20 June 2025
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 12 February 2025
• Consultation: provisional local government finance settlement 2025 to 2026
  • 3 February 2025
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 15 January 2025
• Review of local authorities’ relative needs and resources
  • 17 January 2025
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 21 February 2019
• Local Government Finance Report 2025 to 2026
  • 3 February 2025
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Policy paper
• Referendums Relating to Council Tax Increases (Principles) (England) Report 2025-26
  • 3 February 2025
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• A letter from the Chair, CSPL, to Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP
  • 2 December 2024
  • Committee on Standards in Public Life
  • Transparency
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: spending over £25,000, October 2024
  • 28 November 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Transparency
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: spending over £25,000, September 2024
  • 28 November 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Transparency
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: spending over £25,000, January 2023
  • 28 November 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Transparency
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: spending over £25,000, March 2023
  • 28 November 2024
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Cabinet Office
• HM Treasury
• Government Actuary's Department
• Department of Health & Social Care

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• Department for Work & Pensions
• Valuation Office Agency
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Department for Transport
• Department for Education
• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Home Office
• Committee on Standards in Public Life
• Ministry of Justice
• Northern Ireland Office
• Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain

• Environment Agency