Recommendation 26

The Government needs to find a way to provide certainty of funding for a period of time which is more than the three years under the UKSPF. We have seen in the local government sector what a detrimental effect short-term financial funding settlements have had, and we receive repeated calls to press the Government for multi-year settlements. If the Government does not find a way to provide funding over a longer period, many organisations will find their programmes to be unviable, and a lot of important work will go undone. Therefore, we call on the Government to commit to a longer-term funding programme. (Paragraph 85) Funding for Levelling Up 41 Consultation with the Devolved Governments