Provisional local government finance settlement: England, 2019 to 2020
This collection brings together all documents relating to the provisional local government finance settlement: England, 2019 to 2020.
On 29 January 2019 the final local government finance settlement: England, 2019 to 2020 was published.
The local government finance settlement is the annual determination of funding to local government. It needs to be approved by the House of Commons.
This collection covers the provisional local government finance settlement for 2019 to 2020. The final 2019 to 2020 settlement will be laid before the House of Commons in early 2019.
Introduction
This section contains the statement made to Parliament by the Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP on 13 December 2018.
It also includes the consultation document, which outlines the government’s approach in allocating funding for the local government finance settlement and seeks views by 10 January 2019.
The department has produced an accompanying draft equality statement.
Provisional settlement 2019 to 2020
This section contains useful information for those interpreting the provisional local government finance settlement for 2019 to 2020, including:
- the draft local government finance report
- key information for local authorities
- key information for pools
- supplementary table for pilots
- breakdown of the settlement funding assessment calculation model
- an explanatory note on the 2019 to 2020 business rates retention pilot schemes
Core spending power of local authorities 2019 to 2020
Core spending power measures the core revenue funding available for local authority services, including Council Tax and locally retained business rates. This section has:
- an explanatory note, which sets out the methodology used to calculate core spending power
- a summary table, which shows the change in core spending power over the Spending Review period, year-on-year changes and core spending power per dwelling
- supporting information, which shows the component figures (from Council Tax, locally retained business rates and so on) which are included in core spending power for each local authority