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 Outturn (RO) returns, are as follows.
£000 1997-98 Standards Fund 545 Section 11 (Ethnic Minorities) Grant (excluding SRB) 1363 1998-99 Standards Fund 809 Under-5s Specific Grant 460 Ethnic Minorities Achievement Grant 1,539 1999-2000 Standards Fund 1,879 Nursery Education Grant for four-year-olds 64 Ethnic Minorities Achievement Grant 1,398 2000-01 Standards Fund 3,650 Nursery Education Grant for four-year-olds 47 Provision for three-year-olds 30 Ethnic Minorities Achievement Grant 1,249 Sure Start 2 Child Care and Early Years 360 2001-02 Standards Fund 7,478 Teachers Pay Reform 867 School Standards Grant 1,469 Child Care and Early Years 678 2002-03 Standards Fund 9,555 Nursery Education for three-year-olds 915 Teachers Pay Reform 1,083 School Standards Grant 1,540 Child Care and Early Years 593 2003-04 Child care 865 Excellence in Cities 1,065 School Standards 1,967 Standards Fund 8,223 Teachers' Pay Reform 2,073 Children's Services 5,706 2004-05 Adoption Support and Guardianship Special Orders 189 Choice Protects 246 General Sure Start Grant 15 Education Actions Zones 10 Excellence in Cities 1,119 Safeguarding Children 739 School Standards 2,125 Standards Fund 8,472 Teachers' Pay Reform/Threshold 2,415 Teenage Pregnancy Local Implementation 65 2005-06 Adoption Support and Guardianship Special Orders 314 Choice Protects 530 General Sure Start Grant 3,877 Change Fund 43 Safeguarding Children 862 School Standards 2,286 Standards Fund 10,465 Teachers' Pay Reform/Threshold 2,402 Transforming Youth Work Development Fund 17 Teenage Pregnancy Local Implementation 115 2006-07 Children's Services 901 General Sure Start Grant 2,366 Standards Fund - School Standards Grant 2,420 Standards Fund—Other 8,725 Teenage Pregnancy Local Implementation 140
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 exclude grant 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 (RA) data have been used for 2006-07. Dedicated schools grant (DSG) started in 2006/07 and this has been recorded by Westminster council on their RA return. However, it has been excluded from the above table as prior to 2006-07 this funding was part of RSG, and the question excludes the funding from RSG. The Department can confirm that £86,014 of DSG was paid to Westminster in 2006/07.
There are a number of smaller grants included in an ‘Other’ category on the revenue returns submitted by local authorities. It is possible that there may be some DfES grants within this category, but it is not possible to identify these separately within the return.