The central Government grant per head for each local authority in the south-west region for 2006-07 in descending order is tabled as follows.
Local authority £ per head Isles of Scilly 2,101 Plymouth UA 1,103 Bristol UA 1,040 Torbay UA 1,028 Swindon UA 960 Bournemouth UA 955 Cornwall 885 North Somerset UA 842 South Gloucestershire UA 837 Somerset 824 Gloucestershire 813 Bath and North East Somerset UA 810 Poole UA 783 Devon 760 Wiltshire 748 Dorset 685 Avon and Somerset Police Authority 119 Gloucestershire Police Authority 117 Gloucester 116 Dorset Police Authority 116 Devon and Cornwall Police Authority 116 Exeter 114 Wiltshire Police Authority 108 Kerrier 108 West Somerset 106 Penwith 106 North Cornwall 106 Torridge 99 Weymouth and Portland 98 Restormel 97 Carrick 97 Sedgemoor 95 North Devon 91 Caradon 89 Forest of Dean 88 Cheltenham 88 Teignbridge 87 West Dorset 86 Taunton Deane 86 Mid Devon 86 West Devon 85 Purbeck 80 South Somerset 79 Mendip 79 Stroud 78 South Hams 78 Cotswold 76 Christchurch 76 Tewkesbury 73 Kennet 73 North Wiltshire 72 West Wiltshire 71 North Dorset 71 East Devon 68 Salisbury 66 East Dorset 49 Avon Combined Fire Authority 24 Devon Combined Fire Authority 19 Dorset Combined Fire Authority 15 Wiltshire Combined Fire Authority 14 Exmoor National Park Authority n/a Dartmoor National Park Authority n/a Notes: 1. Central government grant 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 council's core services. 2. 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. 3. Figures for individual authorities vary considerably and are not directly comparable as different types of authority have different responsibilities. 4. Population figures used in the calculation are the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) Mid-Year Population estimates for 2006. Population figures are not currently available for National Park authorities. Source: Communities and Local Government Revenue Outturn (RO) 2006-07 returns