The Government are today confirming individual grant allocations to “Administering Authorities for the Supporting People Programme in 2007-08” which will fund housing related support services for over 1 million vulnerable people—including victims of domestic violence, teenage parents, older people and those with mental health problems—to live independently in their accommodation.
As part of the two-year local government funding settlement in December 2005, minimum allocations for 2007-08 were announced guaranteeing 95 per cent. of the total available. Some 5 per cent. of the funding was held back pending consultation on the draft Supporting People distribution formula, with a commitment to confirming full Supporting People allocations for 2007-08 before the summer recess.
The consultation on the Supporting People distribution formula is now complete and responses to this exercise have been assessed. Following consideration of the available options a decision has been taken to target the remaining funding in 2007-08 to help address some of the inherited uneven distribution of grant between authorities by increasing Supporting People funding to over half of all Supporting People local authorities.
This decision is consistent with the approach taken to determining allocations in both 2005-06 and 2006-07 when an earlier version of the formula was used to inform the grant allocations to those authorities furthest from their correct relative share of the budget. Further work will be carried out on the analysis of responses to the consultation with a view to taking forward work on how we can distribute future funding based on need. All Supporting People grant allocations are listed below.
The Government are also targeting funding from the Supporting People programme to assist linked programmes of national importance.
This early announcement of funding for 2007-08 will help provide the stability required by local authorities and the sector in order to plan for the future.
Local authority 2007-08 grants allocation (£) Barking and Dagenham 5,061,217 Barnet 7,497,667 Barnsley 5,673,232 Bath and North East Somerset UA 4,011,947 Bedfordshire County 7,118,216 Bexley 2,984,688 Birmingham 51,912,681 Blackburn with Darwen UA 6,031,664 Blackpool UA 6,138,533 Bolton 9,101,572 Bournemouth UA 11,152,392 Bracknell Forest UA 2,016,121 Bradford 19,219,872 Brent 12,806,959 Brighton and Hove UA 12,659,223 Bristol, City of UA 27,812,095 Bromley 5,428,129 Buckinghamshire County 5,587,753 Bury 6,653,044 Calderdale 5,674,656 Cambridgeshire County 12,168,459 Camden 35,723,266 Cheshire County 20,537,745 City of London 698,534 Cornwall County 14,204,036 Coventry 15,490,980 Croydon 8,951,651 Cumbria County 9,443,16.4 Darlington UA 3,825,855 Derby UA 10,556,336 Derbyshire County 17,260,646 Devon County 19,337,068 Doncaster 11,064,106 Dorset County 9,665,842 Dudley 6,439,067 Durham County 14,588,081 Ealing 11,125,397 East Riding of Yorkshire UA 4,937,622 East Sussex County 11,561,210 Enfield 11,055,312 Essex County 29,622,839 Gateshead 5,987,723 Gloucestershire County 24,633,207 Greenwich 9,302,736 Hackney 22,221,917 Halton UA 7,803,714 Hammersmith and Fulham 12,826,145 Hampshire County 31,109,951 Haringey 21,330,020 Harrow 3,582,678 Hartlepool UA 3,984,694 Havering 2,578,536 Herefordshire, County of UA 6,523,367 Hertfordshire County 21,000,881 Hillingdon 5,954,047 Hounslow 5,525,734 Isles of Scilly 1,846 Isle of Wight UA 6,379,804 Islington 15,934,504 Kensington and Chelsea 11,170,507 Kent County 32,024,915 Kingston upon Hull, City of UA 11,059,567 Kingston upon Thames 4,405,694 Kirklees 10,593,700 Knowsley 7,381,274 Lambeth 20,792,197 Lancashire County 29,052,873 Leeds 32,986,531 Leicester UA 15,529,446 Leicestershire County 7,012,300 Lewisham 17,219,829 Lincolnshire County 21,373,288 Liverpool 41,900,943 Luton UA 4,520,292 Manchester 38,557,790 Medway UA 5,840,889 Merton 3,385,278 Middlesbrough UA 5,982,841 Milton Keynes UA 5,241,687 Newcastle upon Tyne 18,817,689 Newham 11,068,502 Norfolk County 16,336,572 North East Lincolnshire UA 6,145,522 North Lincolnshire UA 3,454,079 North Somerset UA 5,874,185 North Tyneside 8,623,570 North Yorkshire County 15,180,220 Northamptonshire County 14,256,621 Northumberland County 7,054,329 Nottingham UA 26,052,630 Nottinghamshire County 25,705,789 Oldham 8,227,686 Oxfordshire County 18,856,965 Peterborough UA 4,607,583 Plymouth UA 8,213,292 Poole UA 4,944,078 Portsmouth UA 8,921,250 Reading UA 4,935,083 Redbridge 4,467,863 Redcar and Cleveland UA 2,410,460 Richmond upon Thames 2,847,584 Rochdale 15,076,659 Rotherham 7,567,131 Rutland UA 730,810 Salford 13,191,145 Sandwell 10,580,319 Sefton 6,746,556 Sheffield 25,227,224 Shropshire County 6,345,391 Slough UA 4,325,790 Solihull 2,778,479 Somerset County 19,063,308 South Gloucestershire UA 4,674,886 South Tyneside 4,947,095 Southampton UA 10,559,245 Southend-on-Sea UA 4,908,331 Southwark 18,765,619 St Helens 10,218,473 Staffordshire County 11,971,701 Stockport 8,022,591 Stockton-on-Tees UA 2,950,823 Stoke-on-Trent UA 5,479,678 Suffolk County 18,734,394 Sunderland 11,263,297 Surrey County 18,509,347 Sutton 3,667,041 Swindon UA 5,397,250 Tameside 7,217,707 Telford & Wrekin UA 3,917,442 Thurrock UA 2,375,440 Torbay UA 5,708,189 Tower Hamlets 15,384,899 Trafford 5,431,885 Wakefield 6,967,057 Walsall 7,067,337 Waltham Forest 7,882,823 Wandsworth 11,177,258 Warrington UA 7,611,086 Warwickshire County 10,146,789 West Berkshire UA 5,408,772 West Sussex County 15,049,327 Westminster 17,051,638 Wigan 7,626,132 Wiltshire County 8,174,934 Windsor and Maidenhead UA 1,723,056 Wirral 10,341,400 Wokingham UA 1,609,880 Wolverhampton 7,997,826 Worcestershire County 14,984,323 York UA 8,268,239