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Updated 8 December 2023
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| Local Authority | FY 22/23 Grant |
FY 22/23 JLB (indicative) |
FY 23/24 Grant |
FY 23/24 JLB (indicative) |
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| Grand Total £25,856,922 | ||||
| Totals | £7,477,790 | £3,399,748 | £12,060,455 | £2,918,929 |
| Adur | £2,828 | - | £1,516 | - |
| Amber Valley | £22,941 | - | £43,437 | - |
| Arun | £27,217 | - | £43,472 | - |
| Ashfield | £20,159 | - | £33,474 | - |
| Ashford | £21,907 | - | £39,503 | - |
| Babergh | £16,992 | - | £34,629 | - |
| Barking and Dagenham | £8,031 | - | £4,433 | - |
| Barnet | £13,774 | - | £8,303 | - |
| Barnsley | £40,265 | - | £71,022 | - |
| Basildon | £29,382 | - | £43,476 | - |
| Basingstoke and Deane | £28,422 | - | £42,702 | - |
| Bassetlaw | £20,924 | - | £43,558 | - |
| Bath and North East Somerset | £30,091 | - | £52,783 | - |
| Bedford | £30,673 | - | £60,927 | - |
| Bexley | £10,086 | - | £5,522 | - |
| Birmingham | £38,510 | - | £23,205 | - |
| Blaby | £16,040 | - | £22,092 | - |
| Blackburn with Darwen | £23,492 | - | £42,626 | - |
| Blackpool | £22,716 | - | £39,675 | - |
| Blaenau Gwent | £4,632 | - | £1,589 | - |
| Bolsover | £13,989 | - | £24,188 | - |
| Bolton | £43,966 | - | £73,341 | - |
| Boston | £10,949 | - | £19,621 | - |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | £61,894 | - | £93,235 | - |
| Bracknell Forest | £19,237 | - | £30,401 | - |
| Bradford | £78,337 | - | £125,688 | - |
| Braintree | £25,843 | - | £48,435 | - |
| Breckland | £24,915 | - | £49,694 | - |
| Brent | £12,519 | - | £7,241 | - |
| Brentwood | £13,410 | - | £22,935 | - |
| Bridgend | £6,423 | - | £3,486 | - |
| Brighton and Hove | £43,253 | - | £67,127 | - |
| Bristol | £18,711 | - | £10,292 | - |
| Broadland | £22,738 | - | £37,143 | - |
| Bromley | £14,583 | - | £7,600 | - |
| Bromsgrove | £16,988 | - | £31,055 | - |
| Broxbourne | £15,168 | - | £21,357 | - |
| Broxtowe | £19,494 | - | £38,269 | - |
| Buckinghamshire | £90,610 | - | £166,871 | - |
| Burnley | £14,840 | - | £25,161 | - |
| Bury | £31,247 | - | £53,210 | - |
| Caerphilly | £9,909 | - | £4,148 | - |
| Calderdale | £33,165 | - | £56,870 | - |
| Cambridge | £18,963 | - | £29,659 | - |
| Camden | £8,309 | - | £4,625 | - |
| Cannock Chase | £17,629 | - | £33,636 | - |
| Canterbury | £23,730 | - | £41,041 | - |
| Cardiff | £15,617 | - | £8,009 | - |
| Carmarthenshire | £12,082 | - | £4,551 | - |
| Castle Point | £14,646 | - | £20,406 | - |
| Central Bedfordshire | £47,705 | - | £86,954 | - |
| Ceredigion | £5,205 | - | £1,764 | - |
| Charnwood | £28,775 | - | £43,766 | - |
| Chelmsford | £28,404 | - | £47,278 | - |
| Cheltenham | £4,750 | - | £2,860 | - |
| Cherwell | £27,126 | - | £56,150 | - |
| Cheshire East | £69,190 | - | £132,297 | - |
| Cheshire West and Chester | £59,380 | - | £107,988 | - |
| Chesterfield | £17,487 | - | £30,454 | - |
| Chichester | £20,424 | - | £37,523 | - |
| Chorley | £19,288 | - | £35,035 | - |
| City of London | £698 | - | £245 | - |
| Colchester | £29,857 | - | £50,290 | - |
| Conwy | £5,893 | - | £2,806 | - |
| Cornwall | £30,328 | - | £13,517 | - |
| Cotswold | £18,251 | - | £44,109 | - |
| County Durham | £28,354 | - | £12,227 | - |
| Coventry | £48,022 | - | £74,465 | - |
| Crawley | £17,405 | - | £27,069 | - |
| Croydon | £13,737 | - | £8,674 | - |
| Cumbria County Council | £95,632 | - | £0 | - |
| Dacorum | £24,690 | - | £41,595 | - |
| Darlington | £17,111 | - | £27,842 | - |
| Dartford | £18,058 | - | £30,426 | - |
| Denbighshire | £5,150 | - | £2,319 | - |
| Derby | £40,140 | - | £75,252 | - |
| Derbyshire Dales | £14,990 | - | £35,236 | - |
| Doncaster | £12,954 | - | £7,123 | - |
| Dorset Council | £67,280 | - | £130,940 | - |
| Dover | £19,083 | - | £32,311 | - |
| Dudley | £51,822 | - | £91,154 | - |
| Ealing | £13,581 | - | £7,536 | - |
| East Cambridgeshire | £15,451 | - | £29,759 | - |
| East Devon | £27,623 | - | £52,232 | - |
| East Hampshire | £21,381 | - | £36,508 | - |
| East Hertfordshire | £25,251 | - | £45,640 | - |
| East Lindsey | £26,197 | - | £53,836 | - |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | £61,509 | - | £123,814 | - |
| East Staffordshire | £20,210 | - | £37,598 | - |
| East Suffolk | £44,310 | - | £86,131 | - |
| Eastbourne | £15,652 | - | £20,999 | - |
| Eastleigh | £22,320 | - | £36,026 | - |
| Elmbridge | £21,921 | - | £36,454 | - |
| Enfield | £10,920 | - | £6,797 | - |
| Epping Forest | £21,609 | - | £33,639 | - |
| Epsom and Ewell | £13,933 | - | £26,692 | - |
| Erewash | £18,575 | - | £29,331 | - |
| Exeter | £19,348 | - | £30,494 | - |
| Fareham | £5,382 | - | £2,793 | - |
| Fenland | £16,872 | - | £28,661 | - |
| Flintshire | £7,584 | - | £3,752 | - |
| Folkestone and Hythe | £18,258 | - | £29,319 | - |
| Forest of Dean | £15,940 | - | £30,936 | - |
| Fylde | £14,161 | - | £23,568 | - |
| Gateshead | £31,028 | - | £50,985 | - |
| Gedling | £19,564 | - | £32,461 | - |
| Gloucester | £5,710 | - | £2,853 | - |
| Gosport | £4,052 | - | £1,945 | - |
| Gravesham | £16,596 | - | £27,152 | - |
| Great Yarmouth | £16,186 | - | £24,511 | - |
| Greenwich | £10,942 | - | £5,894 | - |
| Guildford | £22,237 | - | £36,210 | - |
| Gwynedd | £8,302 | - | £2,694 | - |
| Hackney | £9,899 | - | £5,559 | - |
| Halton | £21,342 | - | £35,966 | - |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | £6,154 | - | £3,963 | - |
| Harborough | £17,206 | - | £34,555 | - |
| Haringey | £9,482 | - | £5,637 | - |
| Harlow DC | £14,188 | - | £22,825 | - |
| Harrow LB | £40,148 | - | £62,723 | - |
| Hart | £16,183 | - | £26,549 | - |
| Hartlepool | £15,863 | - | £27,044 | - |
| Hastings | £3,683 | - | £2,031 | - |
| Havant | £20,391 | - | £29,807 | - |
| Havering | £11,115 | - | £5,903 | - |
| Herefordshire | £34,939 | - | £73,672 | - |
| Hertsmere | £17,576 | - | £32,060 | - |
| High Peak | £17,381 | - | £35,468 | - |
| Hillingdon | £9,773 | - | £6,408 | - |
| Hinckley and Bosworth | £19,040 | - | £30,744 | - |
| Horsham | £24,505 | - | £40,418 | - |
| Hounslow | £10,060 | - | £6,036 | - |
| Huntingdonshire | £8,776 | - | £4,220 | - |
| Hyndburn | £13,609 | - | £24,123 | - |
| Ipswich | £21,741 | - | £35,791 | - |
| Isle of Anglesey | £4,480 | - | £1,689 | - |
| Isle of Wight | £6,408 | - | £3,460 | - |
| Isles of Scilly | £584 | - | £50 | - |
| Islington | £8,285 | - | £4,655 | - |
| Kensington and Chelsea | £5,606 | - | £3,019 | - |
| King’s Lynn and West Norfolk | £26,233 | - | £47,488 | - |
| Kingston upon Hull | £39,134 | - | £62,669 | - |
| Kingston upon Thames | £7,166 | - | £3,684 | - |
| Kirklees | £65,584 | - | £102,469 | - |
| Knowsley | £25,103 | - | £36,331 | - |
| Lambeth | £11,717 | - | £7,015 | - |
| Lancaster | £25,468 | - | £48,373 | - |
| Leeds | £121,248 | - | £189,029 | - |
| Leicester | £50,078 | - | £73,867 | - |
| Lewes | £17,229 | - | £30,748 | - |
| Lewisham | £11,182 | - | £6,237 | - |
| Lichfield | £19,443 | - | £40,013 | - |
| Lincoln | £14,287 | - | £25,714 | - |
| Liverpool | £68,339 | - | £106,323 | - |
| Luton | £31,238 | - | £48,357 | - |
| Maidstone | £27,527 | - | £44,243 | - |
| Maldon | £11,465 | - | £21,076 | - |
| Malvern Hills | £14,988 | - | £30,388 | - |
| Manchester | £79,496 | - | £127,431 | - |
| Mansfield | £17,875 | - | £31,037 | - |
| Medway | £42,818 | - | £63,698 | - |
| Melton | £10,613 | - | £24,439 | - |
| Mendip | £20,893 | - | £0 | - |
| Merthyr Tydfil | £4,163 | - | £1,432 | - |
| Merton | £9,154 | - | £4,709 | - |
| Mid Devon | £16,239 | - | £37,820 | - |
| Mid Suffolk | £19,556 | - | £42,405 | - |
| Mid Sussex | £24,783 | - | £39,888 | - |
| Middlesbrough | £21,107 | - | £33,981 | - |
| Milton Keynes | £41,956 | - | £67,819 | - |
| Mole Valley | £15,198 | - | £26,484 | - |
| Monmouthshire | £6,215 | - | £2,276 | - |
| Neath Port Talbot | £7,906 | - | £3,440 | - |
| New Forest | £30,737 | - | £50,484 | - |
| Newark and Sherwood | £21,698 | - | £45,231 | - |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | £40,988 | - | £65,217 | - |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | £6,386 | - | £2,861 | - |
| Newham | £11,467 | - | £6,946 | - |
| Newport | £7,414 | - | £3,533 | - |
| North Devon | £18,722 | - | £40,680 | - |
| North East Derbyshire | £18,865 | - | £38,250 | - |
| North East Lincolnshire | £25,739 | - | £45,030 | - |
| North Hertfordshire | £22,005 | - | £37,290 | - |
| North Kesteven | £21,348 | - | £43,405 | - |
| North Lincolnshire | £28,883 | - | £52,530 | - |
| North Norfolk | £21,285 | - | £50,495 | - |
| North Northamptonshire | £57,394 | - | £102,741 | - |
| North Somerset | £36,057 | - | £61,605 | - |
| North Tyneside | £33,594 | - | £54,170 | - |
| North Warwickshire | £11,782 | - | £24,149 | - |
| North West Leicestershire | £17,971 | - | £31,629 | - |
| North Yorkshire | £112,328 | - | £0 | - |
| Northumberland | £16,481 | - | £7,837 | - |
| Norwich | £21,414 | - | £33,730 | - |
| Nottingham | £42,745 | - | £68,484 | - |
| Nuneaton and Bedworth | £6,484 | - | £3,085 | - |
| Oadby and Wigston | £9,123 | - | £12,978 | - |
| Oldham | £35,382 | - | £59,505 | - |
| Oxford | £7,385 | - | £3,120 | - |
| Pembrokeshire | £7,818 | - | £2,998 | - |
| Pendle | £15,322 | - | £27,098 | - |
| Peterborough | £31,097 | - | £48,492 | - |
| Plymouth | £40,801 | - | £62,508 | - |
| Portsmouth | £30,938 | - | £45,298 | - |
| Powys | £9,970 | - | £3,241 | - |
| Preston | £22,838 | - | £43,605 | - |
| Reading | £24,794 | - | £38,877 | - |
| Redbridge | £10,791 | - | £6,502 | - |
| Redcar And Cleveland | £22,655 | - | £38,858 | - |
| Redditch | £13,780 | - | £20,696 | - |
| Reigate and Banstead | £22,434 | - | £32,039 | - |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf | £11,856 | - | £5,465 | - |
| Ribble Valley | £11,412 | - | £23,327 | - |
| Richmond Upon Thames | £7,766 | - | £4,339 | - |
| Rochdale | £9,473 | - | £5,115 | - |
| Rochford | £14,751 | - | £23,555 | - |
| Rossendale | £11,256 | - | £18,604 | - |
| Rother | £16,980 | - | £32,068 | - |
| Rotherham | £12,473 | - | £6,076 | - |
| Rugby | £19,212 | - | £38,032 | - |
| Runnymede | £13,531 | - | £21,761 | - |
| Rushcliffe | £19,744 | - | £33,633 | - |
| Rushmoor | £14,285 | - | £21,888 | - |
| Rutland | £7,547 | - | £15,731 | - |
| Salford | £40,162 | - | £69,913 | - |
| Sandwell | £49,263 | - | £79,084 | - |
| Sedgemoor | £20,971 | - | £0 | - |
| Sefton | £45,111 | - | £69,969 | - |
| Sevenoaks | £20,613 | - | £39,214 | - |
| Sheffield | £82,841 | - | £123,073 | - |
| Shropshire | £18,270 | - | £7,886 | - |
| Slough | £20,666 | - | £27,742 | - |
| Solihull | £33,876 | - | £51,347 | - |
| Somerset West and Taunton | £28,365 | - | £0 | - |
| South Cambridgeshire | £8,750 | - | £3,811 | - |
| South Derbyshire | £18,732 | - | £35,076 | - |
| South Gloucestershire | £46,804 | - | £74,968 | - |
| South Hams | £16,952 | - | £36,637 | - |
| South Holland | £16,177 | - | £29,095 | - |
| South Kesteven | £25,069 | - | £47,782 | - |
| South Norfolk | £25,877 | - | £51,015 | - |
| South Oxfordshire | £29,514 | - | £75,766 | - |
| South Ribble | £18,779 | - | £31,800 | - |
| South Somerset | £30,660 | - | £0 | - |
| South Staffordshire | £19,270 | - | £36,041 | - |
| South Tyneside | £24,884 | - | £40,228 | - |
| Southampton | £35,265 | - | £52,519 | - |
| Southend-on-Sea | £27,959 | - | £44,098 | - |
| Southwark | £10,351 | - | £6,684 | - |
| Spelthorne | £16,799 | - | £27,578 | - |
| St Albans | £23,930 | - | £39,423 | - |
| St. Helens | £30,201 | - | £46,462 | - |
| Stafford | £24,062 | - | £47,698 | - |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | £18,886 | - | £40,564 | - |
| Stevenage | £14,054 | - | £20,926 | - |
| Stockport | £47,918 | - | £79,990 | - |
| Stockton-on-Tees | £30,830 | - | £49,288 | - |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £38,364 | - | £68,142 | - |
| Stratford-on-Avon | £25,717 | - | £56,492 | - |
| Stroud | £7,359 | - | £3,002 | - |
| Sunderland | £43,340 | - | £65,670 | - |
| Surrey Heath | £14,656 | - | £22,455 | - |
| Sutton | £8,682 | - | £4,833 | - |
| Swale | £23,704 | - | £38,723 | - |
| Swansea | £11,054 | - | £5,598 | - |
| Swindon | £34,995 | - | £54,332 | - |
| Tameside | £35,834 | - | £56,825 | - |
| Tamworth | £13,727 | - | £25,243 | - |
| Tandridge | £13,801 | - | £19,183 | - |
| Teignbridge | £23,866 | - | £43,451 | - |
| Telford and Wrekin | £28,122 | - | £43,724 | - |
| Tendring | £25,619 | - | £43,909 | - |
| Test Valley | £22,590 | - | £42,120 | - |
| Tewkesbury | £16,097 | - | £28,772 | - |
| Thanet | £21,586 | - | £31,579 | - |
| Three Rivers | £15,534 | - | £27,277 | - |
| Thurrock | £25,536 | - | £39,503 | - |
| Tonbridge and Malling | £21,352 | - | £32,147 | - |
| Torbay | £22,273 | - | £34,964 | - |
| Torfaen | £5,081 | - | £2,273 | - |
| Torridge | £13,115 | - | £29,610 | - |
| Tower Hamlets | £10,300 | - | £6,306 | - |
| Trafford | £37,125 | - | £63,016 | - |
| Tunbridge Wells | £18,047 | - | £28,376 | - |
| Uttlesford | £16,678 | - | £35,895 | - |
| Vale of Glamorgan | £7,817 | - | £3,214 | - |
| Vale of White Horse | £23,577 | - | £43,207 | - |
| Wakefield | £55,495 | - | £90,170 | - |
| Walsall | £42,605 | - | £67,601 | - |
| Waltham Forest | £10,823 | - | £5,907 | - |
| Wandsworth | £12,950 | - | £6,972 | - |
| Warrington | £9,916 | - | £5,010 | - |
| Warwick | £25,638 | - | £52,854 | - |
| Watford | £16,010 | - | £27,423 | - |
| Waverley | £21,439 | - | £37,323 | - |
| Wealden | £27,770 | - | £47,509 | - |
| Welwyn Hatfield | £17,584 | - | £27,986 | - |
| West Berkshire | £27,844 | - | £54,970 | - |
| West Devon | £11,345 | - | £26,331 | - |
| West Lancashire | £20,001 | - | £37,932 | - |
| West Lindsey | £18,189 | - | £40,486 | - |
| West Northamptonshire | £66,842 | - | £124,449 | - |
| West Oxfordshire | £20,081 | - | £39,276 | - |
| West Suffolk | £28,933 | - | £57,929 | - |
| Westminster | £7,634 | - | £4,130 | - |
| Wigan | £51,725 | - | £83,164 | - |
| Wiltshire | £24,974 | - | £11,893 | - |
| Winchester | £20,887 | - | £38,679 | - |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | £23,990 | - | £39,984 | - |
| Wirral | £48,717 | - | £65,322 | - |
| Woking | £16,343 | - | £26,684 | - |
| Wokingham | £27,114 | - | £40,833 | - |
| Wolverhampton | £39,102 | - | £64,428 | - |
| Worcester | £17,097 | - | £30,636 | - |
| Worthing | £17,264 | - | £22,614 | - |
| Wrexham | £6,933 | - | £3,137 | - |
| Wychavon | £23,501 | - | £44,674 | - |
| Wyre | £19,628 | - | £35,322 | - |
| Wyre Forest | £16,426 | - | £23,947 | - |
| York | £32,522 | - | £58,624 | |
| Westmoreland and Furness Unitary Authority | - | - | £86,567 | - |
| Somerset Unitary Authority | - | - | £203,199 | - |
| North Yorkshire Unitary Authority | - | - | £240,252 | - |
| Cumberland Unitary Authority | - | - | £136,543 | - |