Provisional local government finance settlement: England, 2020 to 2021
This collection brings together all documents relating to the provisional local government finance settlement, 2020 to 2021.
On 6 February 2020 the final local government finance settlement: England, 2020 to 2021 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 2020 to 2021. The final 2020 to 2021 settlement will be laid before the House of Commons in early 2020.
Introduction
This section contains the written ministerial statement laid in Parliament by the Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP on 20 December 2019.
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 17 January 2020.
The department has produced an accompanying draft equality statement.
Provisional settlement 2020 to 2021
This section contains useful information for those interpreting the provisional local government finance settlement for 2020 to 2021, including:
- the draft local government finance report
- key information for local authorities
- key information for pools
- explanatory note for pools
- breakdown of the settlement funding assessment calculation model
Core spending power of local authorities 2020 to 2021
Core Spending Power is a measure of the resources available to local authorities to fund service delivery. It sets out the money has been made available to local authorities through the local government finance settlement. 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