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:
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.