The central Government revenue funding to Kent county council, Thanet district council and Dover district council in each year since 1993 is as follows:
Kent county council Dover district council Thanet district council 1993-94 845,077 7,929 11,394 1994-95 875,246 8,262 11,105 1995-96 754,685 8,088 10,613 1996-97 781,543 8,490 11,381 1997-98 786,516 8,522 11,457 1998-99 699,509 8,338 11,868 1999-2000 755,146 8,582 11,891 2000-01 841,362 9,147 12,297 2001-02 904,878 9,369 12,895 2002-03 960,539 9,646 13,218 2003-04 1,049,759 9,912 14,022 2004-05 1,094,036 9,450 14,432 2005-06 1,129,800 9,774 13,952 2006-07 1,168,806 10,811 15,766 Source: Communities and Local Government Revenue Outturn (RO) returns.
The large differences between 1994-95 and 1995-96 and between 1997-98 and 1998-99 for Kent county council are as a result of local authority re-organisation.
Central Government revenue funding is defined here as the sum of formula grant (revenue support grant, police grant and redistributed non-domestic rates) and specific grants inside Aggregate External Finance (AEF), i.e. revenue grants paid for councils' core services. In past years, it also includes the SSA reduction grant, central support protection grant, council tax benefit subsidy limitation scheme.
Figures exclude grants outside AEF (i.e. where funding is not for authorities' core services, but is passed to a third party, for example, rent allowances and rebates), capital grants, funding for the 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.
Comparisons across years may not be valid due to changing local authority responsibilities.
The amount of capital grants provided to local authorities by central Government is not available. Funding of supported borrowing is included indistinguishably in revenue funding given in the table.