Rural Services Delivery grant determination (2023-24): No 31/6744
Published 18 August 2023
Applies to England
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The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety (“the Minister”), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003, hereby makes the following determination:
Citation
1. This determination may be cited as the Rural Services Delivery grant determination 2023-24 (2023-24) [No 31/6744]
Purpose of the grant
2. The purpose of this grant is to provide un-ringfenced funding in recognition of the possible additional costs of delivering services in sparsely populated areas. This funding is distributed to the top-quartile of authorities ranked by ‘super-sparsity’, a measure of rurality.
Determination
3. The Minister determines the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid as set out in Annex A of this determination.
4. Payment of the grant will be made in two instalments. The first in June, and the second in December.
Treasury consent
5. Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the minister obtained the consent of the Treasury.
Signed by authority of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety.
Evi Bell
Deputy Director
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
26 June 2023.
Annex A: Rural Services Delivery Grant allocations to local authorities 2023 to 2024
| Authority | RSDG Allocation 2023/24 |
|---|---|
| Ashford | £97,446.00 |
| Babergh | £265,956.00 |
| Bassetlaw | £63,013.00 |
| Boston | £99,980.00 |
| Braintree | £25,949.00 |
| Breckland | £554,095.00 |
| Chichester | £221,748.00 |
| Cotswold | £706,558.00 |
| Derbyshire Dales | £470,518.00 |
| Devon | £8,743,884.00 |
| Devon and Somerset Fire | £496,959.00 |
| Dorset and Wiltshire Fire | £57,625.00 |
| Dorset Council | £2,765,721.00 |
| East Cambridgeshire | £189,538.00 |
| East Devon | £264,583.00 |
| East Lindsey | £779,175.00 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | £2,187,972.00 |
| East Suffolk | £290,978.00 |
| Forest of Dean | £146,883.00 |
| Harborough | £157,513.00 |
| Hereford and Worcester Fire | £127,986.00 |
| Herefordshire | £5,982,261.00 |
| Horsham | £11,954.00 |
| Huntingdonshire | £49,959.00 |
| King’s Lynn And West Norfolk | £542,825.00 |
| Lincolnshire | £8,133,553.00 |
| Maldon | £36,144.00 |
| Malvern Hills | £266,794.00 |
| Melton | £213,116.00 |
| Mid Devon | £547,359.00 |
| Mid Suffolk | £507,822.00 |
| Newark And Sherwood | £44,548.00 |
| Norfolk | £4,669,631.00 |
| North Devon | £363,804.00 |
| North Kesteven | £421,655.00 |
| North Lincolnshire | £241,037.00 |
| North Norfolk | £567,386.00 |
| North Northamptonshire | £39,523.00 |
| North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner | £603,612.00 |
| Northumberland | £2,744,739.00 |
| Ribble Valley | £126,574.00 |
| Rother | £72,012.00 |
| Rutland | £995,149.00 |
| Shropshire | £7,757,314.00 |
| Shropshire Fire | £375,105.00 |
| South Cambridgeshire | £153,240.00 |
| South Hams | £478,583.00 |
| South Holland | £186,702.00 |
| South Kesteven | £345,534.00 |
| South Norfolk | £334,498.00 |
| South Oxfordshire | £49,528.00 |
| Stafford | £29,489.00 |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | £70,901.00 |
| Stratford-on-Avon | £350,814.00 |
| Suffolk | £2,547,912.00 |
| Teignbridge | £56,531.00 |
| Tewkesbury | £16,160.00 |
| Torridge | £555,806.00 |
| Uttlesford | £327,772.00 |
| Vale of White Horse | £10,675.00 |
| Wealden | £242,269.00 |
| West Devon | £544,625.00 |
| West Lindsey | £556,219.00 |
| West Northamptonshire | £438,981.00 |
| West Oxfordshire | £148,899.00 |
| West Suffolk | £202,756.00 |
| Wiltshire | £3,889,228.00 |
| Winchester | £54,313.00 |
| Wychavon | £64,699.00 |
| Cumberland | £2,793,116.00 |
| Westmorland and Furness | £5,565,416.00 |
| North Yorkshire | £ 12,342,732.00 |
| Somerset | £3,581,505.00 |
| Cumbria PCC-FRA | £408,590.00 |
| Total | £90,375,449.00 |