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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Answer

Mr. Byrne: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what estimates his Department has made of projected future spending by local authorities in each year for which projections have been made; and what proportion of each amount is projected to be met through central Government subsidy in each of those years. [223058] Mr. Raynsford: The Government have made no estimates of future spending by local authorities, which is primarily for local authorities to determine. SR04 provided the following increases in Net Aggregate External Funding (Net AEF) which is comprised of Revenue Support Grant and National Non-Domestic Rates: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Net AEF 1 (£ million) 2004-05 42,421 2005-06 44,706 2006-07 47,184 2007-08 49,608 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 This is the increases announced in SR04. The actual Net AEF total for 2005-06 taking account of changes in function and financing agreed after SR04 is 44,726 million. Note: The figure for 2004-05 includes the resources which were paid out as PFI Special Grant.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c579-80W; 223058

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Central government Finance Forecasts Local government Local government finance

Contains statistics

Yes

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