The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is reforming how local authorities are funded and governed, including new borrowing powers and long-term funding certainty to support net-zero delivery and local services. The reform addresses fragmented short-term funding cycles that prevent strategic planning, particularly for bus services, disabled facilities grants, and place-based carbon reduction. Bills are progressing to establish clearer statutory duties and sustainable funding mechanisms.
That this House is deeply concerned by the crisis in local government funding and the findings of the Thirty-First Report of the Committee of Public Accounts of Session 2024–25 on Local Government Financial Sustainability, published on 18 June 2025, and …
A Bill to make provision about the acquisition of land and property by local authorities in England outside their own local authority boundaries; to limit the power of local authorities to invest in c
A Bill to provide for 100 per cent retention of locally collected business rates; and for connected purposes.
A Bill to make provision about the acquisition of land and property by local authorities in England outside their own local authority boundaries; to limit the power of local authorities to invest in c
First Reading 15:24:00 A Bill to replace the current regime of limits on local housing authorities’ debt with limits determined by the existing prudential regime for local authority borrowing for non-housing-related purposes. The Bill was introduced by Lord Sharkey, read …
Motion for leave to bring in a Bill (Standing Order No. 23) 13:09:00 Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston) (Lab): I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to establish a commission to identify the changes …
A Bill to establish a commission to identify the changes in the law necessary to provide for the differing requirements for funding of local authorities taking into account the varying demand for the