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Local Government Finance

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the Government grant was per capita for the (a) Sevenoaks, (b) Sedgefield, (c) Chorley and (d) average English district in (i) 1997-98 and (ii) 2008-09. (308414)

The Government grant per capita for Sevenoaks, Sedgefield, Chorley and the average shire districts in England in 1997-98 and 2008-09 is as follows:

£ per head

1997-98

2008-09

Sevenoaks

60

64

Sedgefield

66

170

Chorley

58

92

Shire districts

65

98

Source:

Communities and Local Government Revenue Outturn (RO) returns for 1997-98 and 2008-09.

The definition of central Government grant used here is the sum of formula grant (revenue support grant and redistributed non-domestic rates) and specific grants inside Aggregate External Finance (AEF), i.e. revenue grants paid for council's core services. For 2008-09 it also includes Area Based Grant (ABG).

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.

Per capita figures are calculated using Office for National Statistics' (ONS) Mid-Year Population estimates for 1997 and 2008.

Comparison across years may not be valid owing to changing local authority responsibilities and local authority reorganisation.