Lichfield District Council: Finance Mr. Jenkins To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much was spent by Lichfield district council in each of the last four financial years; and what revenue the authority received from (a) Government grants, (b) council tax, (c) non-domestic rates, (d) the sale of assets and (e) other sources in each of those years. Barbara Follett The information requested on expenditure and receipts is shown as follows. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |£000 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |2005-06|2006-07|2007-08|2008-09| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Revenue expenditure |12,353|12,603|12,507|13,656| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |financed by: ||||| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Government grants |3,709|2,713|2,979|2,197| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Redistributed non-domestic rates |2,711|4,853|5,019|5,241| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Council tax |5,413|5,817|6,21|6,431| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Other |520|-780|-1,612|-213| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||||| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Capital expenditure |5,187|4,253|7,411|4,052| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |financed by: ||||| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Central Government grants |709|338|459|336| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Use of capital receipts |2,299|2,993|4,046|2,381| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Other |2,179|922|2,906|1,335| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Capital receipts in year |857|1,110|2,613|330| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Source:Communities and Local Government Revenue and Capital Outturn returns||||| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revenue expenditure figures are produced on a non Financial Reporting Standard 17 (FRS17) basis. Government grants within revenue expenditure are defined here as the sum of revenue support grant, area based grant and specific grants inside aggregate external finance (AEF) i.e. revenue grants paid for authorities’ core services. “Other” within revenue expenditure financing includes: transfers and adjustments; appropriations to/from revenue reserves; collection fund surpluses/deficits; and community charge amounts transferred to/from collection fund. Local authority council tax requirement is the council tax available to finance revenue expenditure, not council tax collected. Revenue figures exclude grants outside AEF (i.e. where funding is not for authorities’ core services but is passed to a third party e.g. rent allowances and rebates), 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. Comparisons across years may not be valid owing to changing local authority responsibilities. “Other” within capital expenditure financing includes grants and contributions from outside government (e.g. private developers, national lottery), revenue financing and borrowing.