Policy paper

Core spending power: final local government finance settlement 2023 to 2024

Core spending power measures the overall revenue funding available for local authority services.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Published: 6 February 2023

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

Explanatory note on core spending power

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Core spending power summary

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Core spending power supporting information

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Details

Core spending power measures the core revenue funding available for local authority services, including Council Tax and locally retained business rates. This page 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 since last year, 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

Published 6 February 2023