The Supporting People Programme - Communities and Local Government Committee Contents


Annex 2

  The table below shows the number of years and funds lost, for each of the six local authorities with the greatest grant and needs gap, until they reach their undamped grant level, based on current information:


With Reducing Pot
(-1.5%)
Number of years with
reducing pot (-1.5%)
Funds lost (reducing
pot -1.5%)

£m
Bexley
2018-19
11
-21
Stockton-on-Tees
2021-22
14
-40
Redcar & Cleveland
2019-20
12
-20
Stoke-on-Trent
2016-17
9
-25
Solihull
2016-17
9
-13
Wigan
2016-17
9
-33


  Against this background of excessive needs and resources gaps and slow pace of change, there are authorities at the opposite end of the scale that have historically been greatly over-funded. In the current formula the maximum decrease is 5%. Under current arrangements it may take up to 26 years for funding to reduce to the formula level ie almost twice as long for funding to reduce formula levels, than for funding to increase to formula levels.

  Over that time, authorities at the over-funding extreme of the formula could receive surplus funds of up to £446 million (with one authority alone receiving £191 million) in excess of their identified needs.


With Reducing Pot
(-1.5%)
Number of years with
reducing pot (-1.5%)
Extra funds received
above needs allocation (reducing pot -1.5%)

£m
West Berkshire UA
2033-34
26
30
Camden
2032-33
25
191
Bournemouth UA
2030-31
23
50
Gloucestershire County
2028-29
21
98
York UA
2025-26
18
25
Oxfordshire County
2024-25
17
52

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