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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

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Shona McIsaac: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much financial assistance his Department has provided to (a) North Lincolnshire council and (b) North East Lincolnshire council in each year since 1997. [223465] Mr. Raynsford: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister was established following the machinery of Government changes on 29 May 2002. The tables set out the amounts of formula grant and other grants and payments made to (a) North Lincolnshire council and (b) North East Lincolnshire council by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister since 2002-03. For earlier years, the tables show the amounts paid by the predecessor Departments from programmes which are now administered by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. (a) Financial assistance to North Lincolnshire council £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Formula grant 1 Other grants and payments2 1997-98 86.00 2.637 1998-99 90.638 3.287 1999-2000 95.031 3.441 2000-01 98.677 3.645 2001-02 101.332 6.701 2002-03 104.586 8.229 2002-03 116.245 10.409 2004-05 117.896 11.235 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 These figures may not be comparable year-on-year due to changes in the funding and function of local authorities. 2 For 2004-05 this is a forecast figure. (b) Financial assistance to North East Lincolnshire council £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Formula grant 1 Other grants and payments2 1997-98 98.355 2.848 1998-99 104.436 3.104 1999-2000 109.088 3.472 2000-01 114.535 4.42 2001-02 117.847 6.492 2002-03 120.577 7.429 2003-04 133.289 17.443 2004-05 133.996 23.982 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 These figures may not be comparable year-on-year due to changes in the funding and function of local authorities. 2 For 2004-05 this is a forecast figure. Additionally, we have issued exceptional capitalisation directions to North East Lincolnshire for total maximum amounts of £4.5 million in 2003-04 and £10.5 million in 2004-05, and under our local government intervention programme we have approved a grant determination for £3.8 million, which relates to work for 2004-05 and it is as yet unclaimed.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1143-4W; 223465

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Grants Local government Local government finance Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire Council Formula grant North East Lincolnshire Council

Contains statistics

Yes

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