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Enfield Borough Council: Finance

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much money was held in reserve by Enfield council in each of the last 10 years. (186500)

The amount of revenue reserves held by the London borough of Enfield in each of the last 10 years is shown in the following table. Information for England has been published in Statistical Releases and editions of ‘Local Government Financial Statistics’.

£000

Level of revenue reserves

Date

Schools

Other earmarked

Unallocated

At 1 April

1997

4,954

15,040

28,253

1998

4,512

23,144

20,039

1999

5,026

25,747

9,202

2000

6,367

19,615

0

2001

8,047

14,740

5,754

2002

8,085

15,583

9,486

2003

8,035

16,980

12,352

2004

10,163

18,857

12,418

2005

13,322

34,693

11,500

2006

13,835

45,546

10,507

At 31 March

2007

11,376

44,926

10,111

Notes:

1. Figures are as supplied by the local authority to Communities and Local Government.

2. Use of the schools reserves is not controlled by the council, but by the individual schools to which the reserves belong.

3. Comparisons across years may not be valid due to changing local authority responsibilities.

Source:

Communities and Local Government Revenue Outturn (RO) returns