Craig Whittaker – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Craig Whittaker on 2016-02-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the balances held by all English local authorities.

Mr Marcus Jones

The most recent local authority data held by the Department for Communities and Local Government is the estimated position for financial year 2015-16. Local authorities have estimated that their reserve balances as at 31 March 2016 will be as follows:

Ringfenced school reserves £2,213.16 million

Ringfenced public health reserves £138.83 million

Non ringfenced other earmarked reserves £13,396.76 million

Non ringfenced unallocated reserves £3,736.79 million

Full details can be found on the department’s webpage https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2015-to-2016-individual-local-authority-data

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