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Rate Support Grant

Volume 979: debated on Thursday 28 February 1980

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asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing the distribution of the rate support grant, each year since 1972, to the latest convenient date, both in figures and percentage increases, as between county councils, district councils and metropolitan authorities: and if he will show the total of the rate support grant and the percentage increase in each of these years.

Direct comparisons cannot be made for the earlier years since the Local Government Act 1972 changed the status and boundaries of local authorities with effect from 1 April 1974. The amounts of rate support grant paid since then are:terms and expressed as a percentage of the total sum allocated.

The figures are as set out below. The needs element of RSG was paid to non-metropolitan district councils for the first time in 1979–80.

NEEDS ELEMENT OF RATE SUPPORT GRANT

Final Allocation

Estimated Final Allocation

Percentage Share

1974/751975/761976/771977/781978/791979/801980/8174/7575/7676/7777/7878/7979/8080/81
£m£m£m£m£m£m£m%%%%%%%
(a) Metropolitan709·83904·14979·481054·641145·541280·051544·7924·87025·93825·68726·91426·50326·33326·411
(b) Non-Metropolitan Districts351·95426·267·2407·290
(c) London Boroughs Camden16·2618·0521·0721·2226·1331·3836·730·5700·5180·5530·5420·6050·6460·628
Greenwich14·4416·0219·7720·0824·0529·8035·700·5060·4600·5190·5130·5660·6130·611
Hackney19·4220·8426·6928·3434·4739·7446·450·6810·5980·7000·7230·7980·8180·794
Hammersmith and Fulham15·4217·2821·2521·9726·7631·0536·120·5400·4960·5580·5610·6190·6390·618
Islington19·0020·3125·2617·0232·6536·8642·640·6660·5830·6630·6900·7550·7580·729
Kensington and Chelsea13·6015·8519·1219·3323·0226·5530·040·4770·4550·5020·4930·5330·5460·514
Lambeth25·0327·0033·6435·1543·0350·4058·640·8770·7750·8800·8970·9961·0371·003
Lewisham19·2821·6327·0628·3934·3640·0146·530·6760·6210·7100·7250·7950·8230·796
Southwark23·3425·0931·7833·7740·7846·5553·940·8180·7200·8330·8620·9440·9580·922
Tower Hamlets16·5917·0121·5522·9227·2130·7135·440·5820·4880·5650·5850·6300·6320·606
Wandsworth22·0224·8531·5332·2039·1445·1252·500·7720·7130·8270·8220·9060·9280·898
Westminster11·8414·4015·9413·8019·1726·3532·500·4150·4130·4180·3520·4440·5420·556
Barking and Dagenham11·9515·2517·8118·4422·1624·5428·820·4190·4370·4670·4710·5130·5050·493

Barnet17·9621·7626·2826·9332·4235·7142·180·6300·6240·6890·6870·7500·7350·721
Bexley12·4515·3418·1918·8422·9326·2232·070·4370·4400·4770·4810·5310·5390·548
Brent19·7424·3730·7434·8044·2148·9657·000·6920·6990·8060·8881·0231·0070·975
Bromley16·6719·0324·6426·4632·9738·1445·360·5840·5460·6460·6750·7630·7850·776
Croydon20·1724·5530·5231·9939·3945·8154·600·7070·7050·8000·8170·9110·9420·934
Ealing18·8221·6428·3530·5938·2342·0549·330·6600·6210·7440·7810·8850·8650·844
Enfield15·3119·2824·1425·2630·9335·7342·930·5370·5550·6330·6450·7160·7350·734
Haringey18·0822·4628·2931·0439·1042·2549·300·6340·6450·7420·7920·9050·8690·843
Harrow11·9414·1716·6417·1520·7923·5228·480·4190·4070·4370·4380·4810·4840·487
Havering15·4118·5122·4623·4228·0630·0634·870·5400·5310·5890·5980·6490·6190·596
Hillingdon13·6514·9618·6218·8923·1327·1332·590·4780·4290·4880·4820·5350·5580·557
Hounslow13·3615·6419·3120·1524·4227·7832·720·4680·4490·5060·5140·5650·5720·560
Kingston-upon-Thames8·379·9412·0812·3914·6316·8120·230·2940·2850·3170·3160·3390·3460·346
Merton10·9512·8216·5117·5221·6624·7629·580·3840·3680·4330·4470·5010·5090·506
Newham19·1724·1830·3332·7740·0143·3450·620·6720·6940·7950·8360·9260·8920·866
Redbridge12·7814·6217·9319·4624·9729·2135·410·4480·4200·4700·4970·5780·6010·606
Richmond-upon Thames9·1210·9013·9414·6118·3220·8824·940·3200·3130·3660·3730·4240·4300·4
Sutton9·4911·8214·9215·8419·6122·0125·950·3330·3390·3910·4040·4540·4530·444
Waltham Forest14·1317·7221·9124·3631·1234·7640·940·4950·5090·5750·6220·7200·7150·70