To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of local government revenue expenditure will be locally financed in (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09. (176228)

In 2007-08, local authorities in England have planned to finance 25 per cent. of their revenue expenditure through council tax. Data for 2008-09 are not yet available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which specific grants to local government will (a) no longer be and (b) remain ring fenced. (176241)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 18 December 2007, Official Report, columns 1331-32W.

The following specific revenue grants will remain ring fenced:

AIDS Support

Aiming High for Disabled Children

Animal Health and Welfare Enforcement

Basic Command Units

Bus Challenge and Kickstart

City Challenge

Contact Point¹

Counter Terrorism

Crime Fighting Fund

Dedicated Schools Grant

Early Years: Increasing Flexibility of Entitlement for 3-4 year olds

eCommon Assessment Framework

Ethnic Minority Achievement

Extended Schools—Academic Focused Study Support

Extended Schools—Subsidy

Extended Schools—Sustainability

Initial Police Learning and Development Programme

Learning Disability Campus Closure Programme

Making Good Progress

Music Grant

Neighbourhood Policing Fund and Community Support Officers

Parenting Practitioner Grant

Playing for Success

School Development Grant

School Lunch Grant

Social Care Reform

Supporting People²

Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare

Targeted Mental Health in Schools Grant

Targeted Support for Primary and Secondary Strategy

Urban Congestion

Waste Management Pilots

Youth Opportunity Fund

¹ The Department for Children, Schools and Families aim to include Contact Point in Area Based Grant from 2010-11. Area Based Grant is not ring fenced.

² Communities and Local Government aim to include Supporting People programme grant in Area Based Grant from 2009-10, dependent on pilots in 2008-09 not raising serious concerns.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether councils with above-average collection rates for (a) council tax and (b) business rates receive additional revenue as a consequence. (176615)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 18 December 2007, Official Report, column 1332W.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of the £5 billion of reduction in ring-fenced and specific grants by 2010-11 will be re-allocated to (a) Revenue Support Grant and (b) Area-Based Grant. (176623)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 13 December 2007, Official Report, column 899W.