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Local Government Finance: Bury

Answer

Formula Grant (which is made up of Revenue Support Grant, National Non-Domestic Rates and Principal Formula Police Grant) is the main revenue grant funding made to local authorities aside from those made for specific purposes by individual Departments. Formula Grant is distributed to local authorities by Communities and Local Government on behalf of central Government as a whole. The following table sets out the information requested.

	Prior year's adjusted formula grant¹ (£ million)	Formula grant change¹ (£ million)	Change¹(£ million)	Change¹ (percentage)
2007-08	56.357	57.926	1.568	2.8
2008-09	61.118	63.103	1.985	3.2
¹ On a like for like basis taking account of changes such as, for example, finance or function.

The following table sets out the information on specific grants provided by this Department.

Grant	2007-08 (£ million)	2008-09 (£ million)	Change (£ million)	Change (percentage)
Planning Delivery¹	0.295	n/a	n/a	n/a
Housing and Planning Delivery¹	n/a	0.182	n/a	n/a
Homelessness	0.325	0.325	0	0
Supporting People	6.653	6.611	0.042	-0.63
Supporting People Administration²	0.149	n/a	n/a	n/a
¹ The Planning Delivery Grant was replaced by the Housing and Planning Delivery Grant in 2008-09.
² Supporting People Administration Grant was provided through Area Based Grant in 2008-09.

In addition to the funding set out, Area Based Grant (ABG) was introduced in April 2008. ABG is also paid by this Department on behalf of Government and is comprised of a number of former specific revenue grants formerly provided by individual Government Departments. The allocation to Bury council in 2008-09 was £8.630 million, of which the Communities and Local Government element of funding was £0.732 million.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

502 c306W; 301920

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Local government finance Bury

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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