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Mr. Michael Foster: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what changes there were in central Government grant allocated to (a) Hereford and Worcester county council for each year between 1992 and 1998 and (b) Worcestershire county council since 1998. [197379] Mr. Raynsford: The amount of central Government grant allocated to (a) Hereford and Worcester county council for each year between 1992 and 1998 and (b) Worcestershire county council since 1998 are in the following tables. Hereford and Worcester _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £000 1993-94 318,044 1994-95 328,233 1995-96 277,981 1996-97 290,772 1997-98 292,429 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Worcestershire _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £000 1998-99 234,279 1999-2000 253,735 2000-01 275,842 2001-02 296,776 2002-03 316,844 2003-04 341,186 2004-05 365,693 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. It is not possible to give figures for 1991-92 and 1992-93 as, under the community charge system which was in operation then, some grant was paid into the collection funds operated by lower tier authorities and hence supported expenditure by more than one tier. The data are taken from the Revenue Summary (RS) (outturn) forms for all years except 2003-04 and 2004-05 when the data are taken from the Revenue Account (RA) (budget) form. These forms are completed each year by individual local authorities. Grants in the table include special and specific grants inside "Aggregate External Finance", Standard Spending Assessment (SSA) reduction grant, Police grant, Revenue support grant, Central support protection grant and Redistributed Non- domestic rates.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

426 c840-1W;426 c844-5W; 197379

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Local government finance Worcestershire Herefordshire Hereford and Worcester County Council Worcestershire County Council

Contains statistics

Yes

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