{"value":{"id":1226257,"askingMemberId":410,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-07-20T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-07-22T00:00:00","uin":"76596","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will allocate grant funding to meet the increase in council tax benefit payments from the 2020-21 baseline figure.","answeringBodyId":7,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4655,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-07-27T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Chancellor has launched the 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review, which will conclude in the autumn and set out the Government’s spending plans. The Spending Review will be the opportunity to look at funding for local government in the round and the Government has made a commitment to, as part of this process, apportioning irrecoverable council tax losses between central and local government. The Government has also announced that the repayment of council tax collection fund deficits arising in 2020-21 will be spread over the next three years rather than the usual period of a year, giving councils breathing space in setting budgets for next year.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Council Tax Benefits","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1226257","method":"GET"}]}