Provisional outturn central Government grant per head in 2007-08 for each fire authority in England is tabled as follows.
£ per head Greater London Authority n/a Greater Manchester Fire and CD Authority 29 Merseyside Fire and CD Authority 34 South Yorkshire Fire and CD Authority 27 Tyne and Wear Fire and CD Authority 35 West Midlands Fire and CD Authority 30 West Yorkshire Fire and CD Authority 25 Avon Combined Fire Authority 24 Bedfordshire Combined Fire Authority 18 Berkshire Combined Fire Authority 18 Buckinghamshire Combined Fire Authority 17 Cambridgeshire Combined Fire Authority 16 Cheshire Combined Fire Authority 17 Cleveland Combined Fire Authority 39 Derbyshire Combined Fire Authority 17 Devon and Somerset Combined Fire Authority 20 Dorset Combined Fire Authority 15 Durham Combined Fire Authority 22 East Sussex Combined Fire Authority 18 Essex Combined Fire Authority 18 Hampshire Combined Fire Authority 17 Hereford and Worcester Combined Fire Authority 16 Humberside Combined Fire Authority 27 Kent Combined Fire Authority 18 Lancashire Combined Fire Authority 23 Leicestershire Combined Fire Authority 19 North Yorkshire Combined Fire Authority 17 Nottinghamshire Combined Fire Authority 20 Shropshire Combined Fire Authority 16 Staffordshire Combined Fire Authority 16 Wiltshire Combined Fire Authority 14 Cornwall n/a Cumbria n/a Gloucestershire n/a Hertfordshire n/a Lincolnshire n/a Norfolk n/a Northamptonshire n/a Northumberland n/a Oxfordshire n/a Suffolk n/a Surrey n/a Warwickshire n/a West Sussex n/a Isles of Scilly n/a Isle of Wight UA n/a n/a = The information on central Government grant for these authorities is not available as it is not possible to separately identify the funding for fire and rescue services. This is because formula grant is unhypothecated. Source: Communities and Local Government provisional Revenue Outturn (RO) 2007-08 returns.
Central Government grant is defined here as the sum of Formula Grant (Revenue Support Grant and redistributed non-domestic rates) and specific grants inside Aggregate External Finance (AEF), ie revenue grants paid for council’s core services. It excludes grants outside AEF (ie where funding is not for authorities’ core services, but is passed to a third party), capital grants and those grant programmes (such as European funding) where authorities are simply one of the recipients of funding paid towards an area.
Population figures used in the calculation are the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) Mid-Year Population estimates for 2007.