The average central Government grant per capita for the classes of authority specified since 1997-98 in real terms at 2008-09 prices is shown in the following table.
1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 District councils 85 79 79 80 82 82 89 83 86 96 96 98 Unitary councils 786 806 843 898 936 962 1,081 1,084 1,132 1,144 1,161 1,201 County councils 651 607 632 677 709 720 786 808 839 844 863 889 Metropolitan councils 877 921 969 1,029 1,082 1,107 1,247 1,289 1,344 1,358 1,375 1,414 London boroughs 1,043 1,072 1,113 1,169 1,214 1,230 1,346 1,371 1,419 1,430 1,452 1,473 Police authorities1 152 153 153 134 139 138 143 144 147 143 145 145 Fire authorities2,3 15 16 16 11 11 11 11 26 26 23 23 23 1 From 2000-01 onwards Metropolitan Police Authority data are collected within Greater London Authority. Hence separate data are not available. 2 From 2000-01 onwards London Fire and Civil Defence Authority data are collected within Greater London Authority. Hence separate data are not available. 3 From 2004-05 onwards Combined Fire Authorities (CFA) became precepting authorities. Notes: 1. The definition of central Government grant used here is the sum of Formula Grant (Revenue Support Grant, Redistributed Non-Domestic Rates and Police Grant), Greater London Authority (GLA) grant and specific grants inside Aggregate External Finance (AEF), i.e. Revenue Grants paid for council's core services. In past years, where applicable the SSA reduction grant and Central Support Protection Grants have also been included. From 2008-09 it also includes Area Based Grant (ABG). 2. 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. 3. Per capita figures are calculated using Office for National Statistics' (ONS) Mid-Year Population estimates from 1997 to 2008. 4. The real terms figures are calculated using the latest HM Treasury GDP deflators. 5. From 2000-01 onwards Metropolitan Police Authority and London Fire and Civil Defence Authority data are collected within Greater London Authority returns. Hence separate data are not available. 6. From 2004-05 Combined Fire Authorities (CFA) became precepting authorities. Prior to this CFAs levied on county councils' budget requirements. 7. Comparison across years may not be valid owing to changing local authority responsibilities.