Policy paper

Core spending power: provisional local government finance settlement 2017 to 2018

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

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May 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

  • an explanatory table, which shows the change in core spending power over the Spending Review period, year-on-year changes and core spending power per dwelling

  • explanatory table: 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

Updates to this page

Published 15 December 2016

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