Hugh Grover
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first heard Dec 2010
last heard Dec 2010
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while at the same time Hampshire's would reduce by 2.5%, and clearly nothing has changed for those two authorities.
The change has only occurred in Wokingham.
Well, certainly on the surface, that would seem to be the simple solution.
And indeed, earlier in the year, how things have changed.
Earlier in the year, we were expecting, relatively speaking, small cuts of around about 5%.
And certainly we, in London councils, were calling for that kind of methodology.
It's simple, it's straightforward, it's easily understood.
But that was before we realised quite the scale of the cuts that we were going to see.
And now, with these huge cuts, obviously we need to be aware
that some areas of the country are much more reliant on central government grant than others.
And that kind of blanket cut would obviously impact most severely those authorities who are seen to be most needy.
So with some areas relying on central government grant for around about 75% of their total budget, while others maybe only 20%, you can see that a blanket cut to those with 75% of their funding coming through from central government, it would disproportionately hit them.
Okay, so the government for a number of years has had in place a system of damping, a system that prevents major swings in funding from one authority to another.
And this year it's put in place a slightly more complex system of damping based around four blocks, within which there are now four separate floors.
Now,
High need authorities in London, for instance, that would be Hackney, are up in block one with maximum protection.
And lower needs authorities, for instance, in London, again, Richmond, are down in block four.
And effectively, what they're doing is shifting money from lower need authorities to the higher need authorities through this system of damping.
And then to further minimise the overall cut, they've put in place some additional funding that they've found from
the Department for Communities and Local Government, some £85 million this year and £14 million next year, in order to ensure that the most hit authorities get some protection and stay below a double figure cut to their spending power.
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