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IT Contracts

Mr. Sayeed: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list information technology contracts in his Department and its predecessors with a value of above £20 million in each of the last 10 years; what the inception date for each system was; when it became fully functional; when it became fully debugged; and what the cost of over-runs has been. [146190]

Yvette Cooper: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and those components of former Departments that make up the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister have not let any contracts that meet this description.

Local Government

Mr. Dorrell: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the total value of central government grant paid to each local authority in Leicestershire in each financial year between 1996–97 and 2003–04. [149464]

Mr. Raynsford: The information requested is tabled as follows.

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£ million

	1996–97(45)	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Leicestershire County Council
Specific grants inside AEF	22.812	15.668	15.945	25.960	41.017	54.495	71.908	48.995
Revenue Support Grant	244.985	127.070	130.033	131.938	126.384	141.285	119.944	154.610
National non domestic rates	188.387	115.272	121.614	132.527	149.629	147.894	162.341	163.571
Total grant	456.184	258.010	267.592	290.425	317.030	343.674	354.193	367.176
Blaby
Specific grants inside AEF	0.100	0.094	0.091	0.087	0.093	0.086	0.105	0.220
Revenue Support Grant	0.271	0.375	0.434	0.212	0.000	0.194	0.000	0.945
National non domestic rates	3.018	2.704	2.747	2.959	3.292	3.280	3.707	3.153
Total grant	3.389	3.173	3 272	3.258	3.385	3.560	3.812	4.318
Charnwood
Specific grants inside AEF	0.217	0.230	0.214	0.231	0.354	0.319	0.361	0.637
Revenue Support Grant	2.792	3.102	3.428	3.208	2.851	3.453	2.963	4.765
National non domestic rates	5.417	4.900	4.995	5.360	5.917	5.921	6.656	5.358
Total grant	8.426	8.232	8.637	8.799	9.122	9.693	9.980	10.760
Harborough
Specific grants inside AEF	0.081	0.082	0.081	0.080	0.088	0.080	0.104	0.216
Revenue Support Grant	0.636	0.852	0.624	0.549	0.334	0.443	0.131	1.063
National non domestic rates	2.506	2.290	2.366	2.561	2.863	2.851	3.258	2.680
Total grant	3.223	3.224	3.071	3.190	3.285	3.374	3.493	3.960
Hinckley and Bosworth
Specific grants inside AEF	0.127	0.131	0.134	0.137	0.157	0.145	0.180	0.287
Revenue Support Grant	0.819	0.978	1.036	0.857	0.610	0.894	0.568	1.683
National non domestic rates	3.455	3.095	3.138	3.376	3.720	3.703	4.137	3.496
Total grant	4.401	4.204	4.308	4.370	4.487	4.742	4.885	5.466
Melton
Specific grants inside AEF	0.065	0.067	0.071	0.066	0.072	0.065	0.060	0.138
Revenue Support Grant	0.872	0.927	0.970	0.938	0.810	0.992	0.824	1.469
National non domestic rates	1.648	1.475	1.493	1.607	1.763	1.783	2.015	1.670
Total grant	2.585	2.469	2.534	2.611	2.645	2.840	2.899	3.277
North West Leicestershire
Specific grants inside AEF	0.144	0.144	0.147	0.151	0.152	0.174	0.179	0.386
Revenue Support Grant	1.922	2.150	1.685	1.548	1.386	1.671	1.371	2.416
National non domestic rates	2.940	2.659	2.704	2.914	3.238	3.225	3.647	2.990
Total grant	5.006	4.953	4.536	4.613	4.776	5.070	5.197	5.791
Oadby and Wigston
Specific grants inside AEF	0.062	0.067	0.067	0.081	0.102	0.094	0.108	0.154
Revenue Support Grant	0.508	0.643	0.671	0.571	0.417	0. 595	0.417	1.023
National non domestic rates	1.878	1.689	1.716	1.841	2.009	2.018	2.273	1.947
Total grant	2.448	2.399	2.454	2.493	2.528	2.707	2.798	3.123
Leicester City
Specific grants inside AEF	1.117	9.188	9.413	12.963	22.630	32.027	55.142	47.292
Revenue Support Grant	24.016	148.702	153.958	152.799	151.781	160.180	158.277	187.441
National non domestic rates	10.377	66.883	69.487	74.954	84.757	81.834	89.118	84.754
Total grant	35.510	224.773	232.858	240.716	259.168	274.041	302.537	319.487
Rutland
Specific grants inside AEF	0.041	0.620	0.911	1.188	1.701	3.421	4.681	3.698
Revenue Support Grant	0.549	6.748	6.199	5.835	5.236	6.075	5.646	8.899
National non domestic rates	1.190	7.833	8.330	9.080	10.279	10.393	11.622	10.480
Total grant	1.780	15.201	15.440	16.103	17.216	19.889	21.949	23.076
Leicestershire Police Authority
Specific grants inside AEF	0.340	1.024	1.602	0.000	0.000	0.000	6.721	7.031
Revenue Support Grant	15.848	16.343	16.530	17.096	15.935	17.615	15.452	25.535
Police Grant	47.056	48.312	49.102	51.332	53.166	55.515	55.660	60.032
National non domestic rates	18.929	18.198	18.032	19.412	21.499	21.470	23.380	13.198
Total grant	82.173	83.877	85.266	87.840	90.600	94.600	101.213	105.797

⁽⁴⁵⁾ Figures for 1996–97 are not comparable with those for later years for Leicestershire County Council, Leicester City and Rutland due to local government organisation. This resulted in Leicester City and Rutland becoming unitary authorities on 1 April 1997.

Notes:

1. AEF = Aggregate External Finance

2. More generally, figures have not been adjusted to take account of changes between years in function or responsibility.

Source:

RA and RS returns to ODPM

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Mr. Flook: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) what representations he has received from Taunton Deane borough council on the level of increase received in (a) revenue support grant and national non-domestic rates and (b) rent allowances for handling rents and council tax benefit; and if he will make a statement; [150065]

(2) by what percentage central Government funding to Taunton Deane borough council has changed in 2004–05; [150066]

(3) what the (a) revenue support grant and (b) national non-domestic rate settlement for Taunton Deane was for (i) 2003–04 and (ii) 2004–05. [150084]

Mr. Raynsford: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has received two representations from Taunton Deane borough council on the provisional local government finance settlement 2004–05, which include comments on the transfer of funding for rent allowances and council tax benefit (CTB) to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).

In order to make a fair comparison, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has assessed what Formula Grant the authority would have received in 2003–04 had the transfer of benefits taken place in the previous year. On this basis the Revenue Support Grant (RSG) plus National Non-Domestic Rates (NNDR) will increase by 3.3 per cent.

In 2003–04 Taunton Deane received £3.458 million in RSG and £3.579 million in NNDR. Under the Government's proposals for 2004–05, Taunton Deane receives £3,680 million in RSG and £2,824 million in NNDR.

Mr. Djanogly: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) what his policy is on enabling councils to raise a greater proportion of their income themselves; [150133]

(2) what plans he has to reform the way in which local councils are funded; [150376]

(3) what discussions he has had with (a) the Chancellor of the Exchequer and (b) the Prime Minister regarding re-structuring the way in which local councils are funded. [150377]

Mr. Raynsford: The ways in which local councils are funded are being considered by the Balance of Funding Review which is due to report in the summer. Papers for the Review's Steering Group are available on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's website at http://www.local.odpm.gov.uk/finance/balance.htm.

Lottery Revenue

Mr. Willis: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the total value is of Lottery revenue used to support Government-sponsored projects within his Department since 1997. [149627]

Phil Hope: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has no policy or operational responsibility for distribution of National Lottery Fund.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Yardley (Estelle Morris) on 26 January 2004, Official Report, column 45W.

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