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(b) The Government have published details of the final allocations to local authorities in England in Grant Determinations, which can be viewed on the Communities and Local Government website at:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/localgovernment/local governmentfinance/labgi/
The main Grant Determinations can be viewed at:
05/06 Grant Determination (No 1) 2006 [No 31/233] (7 February 2006)
05/06 Grant Determination (No 2) 2006 [No 31/249] (27 February 2006)
05/06 Grant Determination (No 3) 2006 [No 31/491] (19 July 2006)
06/07 Grant Determination 2007 [No 31/554] (27 February 2007)
06/07 Grant Determination (no 2) 2007 [No 31/892] (6 September 2007)
07/08 Grant Determination (No 2) 2008 [31/1238] (26 June 2008)
Grant Determination 2009 [No 31/1287] (23 February 2009)
Grant Determination 2009 (no 2) (no 31/1640) (25 September 2009)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/local government/labgidetermination20092
Local Government
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 3 March 2010, Official Report, column 1239W, on local government, if he will issue guidance to local authority monitoring officers on visits by hon. Members to local authority-owned premises and facilities (a) outside and (b) inside election purdah periods. [324000]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The Secretary of State has no plans to issue guidance to local authority monitoring officers on visits by hon. Members to premises and facilities owned by local authorities. Local authority members are required by their council's statutory Code of Conduct to ensure their council's resources are not used improperly for political purposes (including party political purposes).
Local Government Finance
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the public sector duty regarding socio-economic inequalities in clause 1 of the Equality Bill will apply to his Department when it is allocating local government grants. [319033]
Michael Jabez Foster: I have been asked to reply.
The Government Equalities Office leads on the Equality Bill.
The duty will apply to decisions of a strategic nature. As we made clear in our guide to the duty, we would expect central government departments to have regard to the duty, alongside other considerations, when making strategic funding decisions.
Local Government: Complaints
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many complaints have been (a) submitted to and (b) upheld by in whole or in part the Local Government Ombudsman in each year since 1996. [323304]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The following table shows the number of complaints submitted each year and the number of complaints in each year on which either a local settlement was reached or the Ombudsman issued a report finding maladministration.
| Complaints submitted | Complaint settled locally or reported on by Ombudsman | |
Local Government: Equality
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment he has made of the effect of Clause 1 of the Equality Bill on the allocation of local funding (a) by central government to local government and (b) by local authorities to individual wards and neighbourhoods. [319626]
Michael Jabez Foster: I have been asked to reply.
The Government Equalities Office leads on the Equality Bill.
The public sector duty regarding socio-economic inequalities will apply to decisions of a strategic nature. As we made clear in our guide to the duty, we would expect central government departments to have regard to the duty, alongside other considerations, when making strategic funding decisions.
The guide also makes clear that we would expect local authorities to have regard to the duty when drawing up their key plans and strategies. However, whether the duty is relevant to any particular local funding decision will be for the local authority to decide.
Local Government: Per Capita Costs
Mrs. Spelman:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 16 December 2009, Official Report, columns 1292-3W, on local government: per capita costs, what the average central Government grant per capita was to (a) district councils, (b) unitary councils, (c) county
councils, (d) metropolitan councils, (e) London boroughs, (f) police authorities and (g) fire authorities in each year since 1997-98 in real terms in 2009 prices. [324007]
Barbara Follett: The average central Government grant per capita for the classes of authority specified since 1997-98 in real terms at 2008-09 prices is shown in the following table.
| £ per head | ||||||||||||
| 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | |
| (1) From 2000-01 onwards Metropolitan Police Authority data are collected within Greater London Authority. Hence separate data are not available. (2) From 2000-01 onwards London Fire and Civil Defence Authority data are collected within Greater London Authority. Hence separate data are not available. (3) From 2004-05 onwards Combined Fire Authorities (CFA) became precepting authorities. Notes: 1. The definition of central Government grant used here is the sum of Formula Grant (Revenue Support Grant, Redistributed Non-Domestic Rates and Police Grant), Greater London Authority (GLA) grant and specific grants inside Aggregate External Finance (AEF), i.e. Revenue Grants paid for council's core services. In past years, where applicable the SSA reduction grant and Central Support Protection Grants have also been included. From 2008-09 it also includes Area Based Grant (ABG). 2. Figures exclude grants outside AEF (i.e. where funding is not for authorities' core services, but is passed to a third party, for example, rent allowances and rebates), capital grants, funding for the local authorities' housing management responsibilities and those grant programmes (such as European funding) where authorities are simply one of the recipients of funding paid towards an area. 3. Per capita figures are calculated using Office for National Statistics' (ONS) Mid-Year Population estimates from 1997 to 2008. 4. The real terms figures are calculated using the latest HM Treasury GDP deflators. 5. From 2000-01 onwards Metropolitan Police Authority and London Fire and Civil Defence Authority data are collected within Greater London Authority returns. Hence separate data are not available. 6. From 2004-05 Combined Fire Authorities (CFA) became precepting authorities. Prior to this CFAs levied on county councils' budget requirements. 7. Comparison across years may not be valid owing to changing local authority responsibilities. | ||||||||||||
Local Government: Public Consultation
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which local authorities offer community kitties to local residents. [323988]
Barbara Follett: We do not require local authorities to report on this, but according to the Participatory Budgeting Unit, who collate information on our behalf, 63 top tier local area agreement (LAA) areas use some form of participatory budgeting. For details of those who are carrying out participatory budgeting, I refer the hon. Member to an answer I gave her on 12 January 2010, Official Report, column 890-92W.
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