The Government published allocations of the area-based grant (ABG) at individual authority level on a three-year basis alongside the local government finance settlement 2008-09 to 2010-11. Full details of the allocations, as at the time of the settlement, are available on the Communities and Local Government website:
http://www.local.odpm.gov.uk/finance/0809/specgrant.htm
The 2008-09 Allocations for Tyne and Wear authorities for the period 2008-09 are as follows.
£ million Gateshead 17.187 Newcastle upon Tyne 21.978 North Tyneside 10.533 South Tyneside 20.655 Sunderland 25.188
Area-based grant is a new non-ring-fenced general grant which comprises some 40 funding streams from seven Government Departments including my own, three of which are new and 37 of which were previously paid as specific grants. Data on the 2007-08 allocations of the 37 predecessor grants are not held in one place at individual local-authority level, and it would incur disproportionate costs to collate the information. A list of the former specific grants moved into ABG is available on our website at
http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/rsg_abg.pdf