MP welcomes £153m funding boost for Lincolnshire since start of pandemic

MP for Boston and Skegness Matt Warman has welcomed a £153m funding boost for Lincolnshire.
Boston and Skegness MP Matt Warman.Boston and Skegness MP Matt Warman.
Boston and Skegness MP Matt Warman.

New analysis showing that local authorities across the county have received the funding to support vital local services during the Covid-19 pandemic, with further funding confirmed for next year.

So far more than £7 billion has been distributed by the Government, with £3 billion more confirmed for next year.

Over half of this funding has not been ringfenced, meaning local leaders can decide how to use the additional funds and which local services to boost investment to. This could include counselling services, delivering essential supplies to vulnerable families, and ensuring cherished green spaces

are well maintained and covid-secure.

Local authorities have also received over £2 billion in further grant funding since March last year to deliver specific schemes, such as providing emergency support for rough sleepers, preventing children going hungry, setting up local test and trace services and measures to make care homes,

high streets and town centres Covid-secure.

Commenting, Matt Warman said: “Councils across Lincolnshire have done an incredible job in providing local services and keeping

people safe under the most difficult of circumstances, but we recognise the financial pressures they have faced.

“That’s why the Government has supported council leaders across Lincolnshire with an extra £153m since March last year, helping to protect vital services and ensure our council has the resources it needs to support our community.

“This shows that the Conservatives are delivering on their promise to support vulnerable families and local people during the pandemic, and I am confident this will continue.”

Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said: “From the start of the pandemic, we committed to ensuring that councils had the resources they

needed to step up and support their communities.

“That commitment remains undimmed, which is why we have provided councils with more than £7 billion of additional funding for Covid-19 expenditure, and will continue to ensure they have the resources they need to provide vital local services and held their communities build back better from

the pandemic.”