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Local Government Finance: Greater London

Volume 460: debated on Monday 21 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what the (a) cash and (b) percentage change has been in total external support for each London local authority since 1997; (137756)

(2) what the (a) cash and (b) percentage change has been in Government support per 1,000 people in each London local authority since 1997.

Information on the amount of and percentage change in Government funding for each London local authority since 1997, both actual and per 1,000 people, has been made available in tables which have been placed in the Library of the House.

Government funding is defined here as the sum of specific grants inside Aggregate External Finance (AEF), formula grant (Revenue Support Grant, Redistributed business rates and Police Grant) and General Greater London Authority (GLA) Grant.

The figures exclude grants outside AEF (i.e. where funding is not for an authority’s core services, but is passed to a third party; for example, as in the case of mandatory student awards), capital grants, funding for local authorities’ housing management responsibilities and those grant programmes (such as European funding) where authorities are simply one of the recipients of funding paid towards an area.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which grants for which her Department is responsible have been made to Westminster city council, outside the revenue support grant, in each year since 1997-98; and what the value was of each grant. (137758)

The grants made to Westminster city council in each year since 1997-98 by this Department, as recorded by the council in the Communities and Local Government Revenue returns, are shown in the following table (all figures in £000s):

Grants

£000

1997-98

Nil

1998-99

Other grants within AEF

50

1999-2000

The Private Finance Initiative

341

2000-01

The Private Finance Initiative

524

Other grants within AEF

1,014

2001-02

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

749

The Private Finance Initiative

504

Other grants within AEF

2,002

2002-03

Supporting People Implementation Grant

313

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

1,123

The Private Finance Initiative

491

Other grants within AEF

690

2003-04

Local Public Service Agreement Performance Reward

36

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

1,779

Planning Delivery

51

The Private Finance Initiative

472

Supporting People Administration

344

Supporting People Programme

18,193

Other

6,791

2004-05

Homelessness Strategies

6,896

Local Public Service Agreement Performance Reward

193

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

1,468

Neighbourhood Wardens

256

Planning Development

426

Supporting People Administration

336

Supporting People Programme—Housing

17,787

Other

2,969

2005-06

Homelessness Strategies

6,195

Local Authority Business Growth Incentives scheme

109

Local Public Service Agreement Performance Reward

61

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

1,486

Planning Delivery

394

Supporting People Administration

269

Supporting People Programme—Housing

17,681

Other grants within AEF

3,050

2006-07

Homelessness Strategies

6,500

Local Authority Business Growth Incentives scheme

1,444

Local Public Service Agreement Performance Reward Grant

299

Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

2,347

Planning Delivery

675

Supporting People Administration Grant

269

Supporting People Programme—Housing

17,022

Other grants within AEF

3,108

The table sets out the specific grants inside aggregate external finance (AEF) (i.e. revenue grants paid for councils’ core services) paid to Westminster and excludes grants outside AEF such as capital grants, funding for local authorities' housing management responsibilities, European funding, or where authorities are simply one of the recipients of funding paid towards an area. Revenue support grant and other elements of formula grant (such as redistributed business rates and police grant) have also been excluded.

Revenue outturn data have been used from 1997-98 to 2005-06 (the last year available) and revenue account data have been used for 2006-07.

There are a number of smaller grants included in an “Other” category on the revenue returns submitted by local authorities. The totals of these are included above, although it is possible that there are grants from other Government Departments in this category. It is not possible to identify these separately within the return. The Private Finance Initiative grant has also been included above, although this will cover projects outside the policy responsibility of this Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the (a) gross and (b) net income from capital receipts, including property and land disposals, was in each London local authority in each of the last 10 years. (137765)

Information on the amount of capital receipts reported by each London local authority over the last 10 years has been made available in a table which has been placed in the Library of the House.

Capital receipts shown are gross, excluding the portion of receipts applied in defraying the administrative costs arising from the disposal of land or housing held under Part II of the Housing Act 1985 (regulation 23(e)).