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Departments: Westminster City Council

Volume 461: debated on Thursday 14 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which grants for which his Department is responsible have been made to Westminster city council in each year since 1997-98; and what the value was of each grant. (137759)

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 as follows.

Grants

£000

1997-98

Asylum seekers: various grants

7,166

1998-99

Asylum seekers: various grants

10,403

1999-2000

Asylum seekers

12,912

2000-01

Asylum seekers

15,394

2001-02

Asylum seekers

12,987

2002-03

Asylum seekers

12,454

2003-04

Asylum seekers

8,948

2004-05

Asylum seekers

5,697

2005-06

Asylum seekers

3,698

Young People Substance Misuse Partnership

527

2006-07

Asylum seekers

1,373

Young People Substance Misuse Partnership

458

This 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.