Guidance

Funding Guarantee Grant Determination 2024 to 2025

Published 30 April 2024

Applies to England

Funding Guarantee Grant Determination 2024-25 No.31/7257

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government (“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 Funding Guarantee Grant Determination 2024-25 No.31/7257

Purpose of the grant

2. The purpose of this grant is to ensure that all local authorities in England will see a minimum 4% increase in Core Spending Power before local council tax decisions.

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 instalments throughout the 2024-25 financial year.

5. Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the Minister obtained the consent of the Treasury[footnote 1].

Signed by authority of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government.

Elsa Esberger
Deputy Director, Local Government Funding Strategy
30 April 2024

Annex A: Funding Guarantee 2024-25 allocations to local authorities

Local authority Allocation (£)
England Total 268,570,430
Adur 542,858
Amber Valley 743,260
Arun 634,958
Ashfield 538,004
Ashford 938,144
Avon Fire 868,091
Babergh 155,790
Basildon 1,509,550
Basingstoke And Deane 2,449,849
Bassetlaw 783,289
Bedfordshire Fire 514,472
Berkshire Fire 769,986
Blaby 2,245,863
Bolsover 494,196
Boston 549,572
Bracknell Forest 267,735
Braintree 982,723
Breckland 363,118
Brent 1,284,894
Brentwood 824,201
Broadland 523,735
Bromley 172,233
Bromsgrove 1,260,552
Broxbourne 196,620
Broxtowe 471,034
Buckinghamshire Council 4,445,920
Buckinghamshire Fire 598,000
Burnley 803,744
Cambridge 2,529,460
Cambridgeshire Fire 558,124
Cannock Chase 1,542,417
Canterbury 1,359,982
Castle Point 688,786
Central Bedfordshire 788,469
Charnwood 2,651,528
Chelmsford 1,830,161
Cheltenham 1,151,195
Cherwell 3,461,153
Cheshire Fire 879,862
Chesterfield 691,200
Chichester 546,050
Chorley 1,622,588
City of London 375,260
Cleveland Fire 294,182
Colchester 2,156,075
Cotswold 2,230,732
Crawley 1,105,512
Cumbria Fire 459,407
Dacorum 869,586
Dartford 3,294,168
Derbyshire Dales 915,157
Derbyshire Fire 698,900
Devon and Somerset Fire 1,751,985
Dorset and Wiltshire Fire 1,632,000
Dorset Council 1,455,969
Dover 1,386,446
Durham Fire 529,909
East Cambridgeshire 256,020
East Devon 1,785,909
East Hampshire 2,607,319
East Hertfordshire 413,276
East Lindsey 998,492
East Staffordshire 838,358
East Suffolk 1,860,279
East Sussex Fire 1,090,370
Eastbourne 625,596
Eastleigh 2,419,957
Elmbridge 1,935,978
Epping Forest 1,375,422
Epsom And Ewell 140,828
Erewash 543,328
Essex Fire 1,459,009
Exeter 1,310,251
Fareham 494,847
Fenland 788,558
Folkestone and Hythe 1,341,560
Forest of Dean 428,492
Fylde 1,048,454
Gedling 225,721
Gloucester 39,304
Gosport 484,102
Gravesham 576,399
Great Yarmouth 98,653
Greater London Authority 24,237,756
Greater Manchester Combined Authority 1,185,180
Guildford 987,746
Hampshire 27,859
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue 1,640,356
Harborough 1,471,543
Harlow 1,011,318
Harrow 2,273,805
Hart 1,402,753
Hastings 428,735
Havant 547,265
Hereford and Worcester Fire 901,701
Hertfordshire 1,704,214
Hertsmere 873,219
High Peak 964,620
Hinckley And Bosworth 546,179
Horsham 3,726,854
Humberside Fire 596,912
Huntingdonshire 978,855
Hyndburn 226,660
Ipswich 1,005,050
Kent Fire 1,527,040
King’s Lynn And West Norfolk 520,418
Kingston upon Thames 1,436,236
Lancashire Fire 915,656
Lancaster 1,188,567
Leicestershire Fire 642,201
Lewes 242,466
Lichfield 614,171
Lincoln 434,359
Maidstone 3,606,767
Maldon 774,004
Malvern Hills 1,118,958
Mansfield 912,584
Merseyside Fire 757,849
Merton 216,499
Mid Devon 564,370
Mid Suffolk 345,691
Mid Sussex 1,050,275
Mole Valley 720,833
New Forest 1,232,725
Newark And Sherwood 1,612,383
Newcastle-under-Lyme 533,326
North Devon 1,506,945
North East Derbyshire 480,698
North Hertfordshire 1,154,982
North Kesteven 647,627
North Norfolk 1,230,666
North Warwickshire 824,239
North West Leicestershire 1,707,118
North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner 669,488
Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner 509,360
Norwich 975,492
Nottinghamshire Fire 738,017
Nuneaton And Bedworth 550,114
Oadby And Wigston 129,501
Oxford 1,161,269
Pendle 720,119
Preston 486,037
Reading 978,728
Redditch 772,847
Reigate And Banstead 1,535,641
Ribble Valley 745,029
Richmond upon Thames 2,611,542
Rochford 693,743
Rossendale 360,520
Rother 888,240
Rugby 1,594,254
Runnymede 692,120
Rushcliffe 499,412
Rushmoor 516,130
Rutland 320,879
Sevenoaks 1,547,434
Shropshire Fire 373,263
South Cambridgeshire 1,156,740
South Derbyshire 1,984,832
South Hams 653,247
South Holland 804,760
South Kesteven 1,110,505
South Norfolk 2,601,357
South Oxfordshire 757,225
South Ribble 548,806
South Staffordshire 212,601
South Yorkshire Fire 758,686
Spelthorne 1,883,082
St Albans 1,468,341
Stafford 2,120,360
Staffordshire Moorlands 629,429
Staffordshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner 828,101
Stevenage 390,740
Stratford-on-Avon 1,757,570
Stroud 1,417,251
Surrey 9,072,362
Surrey Heath 1,031,489
Sutton 705,546
Swale 1,276,308
Swindon 1,618
Tamworth 626,441
Tandridge 1,103,070
Teignbridge 1,274,794
Tendring 1,436,608
Test Valley 2,646,645
Tewkesbury 2,139,431
Thanet 910,998
Three Rivers 510,041
Tonbridge And Malling 2,510,260
Torridge 45,935
Tunbridge Wells 889,884
Tyne and Wear Fire 689,183
Uttlesford 2,548,307
Vale of White Horse 2,191,938
Warwick 2,462,428
Watford 30,161
Waverley 1,227,438
Wealden 1,751,194
Welwyn Hatfield 1,072,331
West Berkshire 1,682,740
West Devon 91,325
West Lancashire 391,328
West Lindsey 316,270
West Midlands Fire 1,312,153
West Northamptonshire 609,593
West Oxfordshire 1,684,179
West Suffolk 1,440,257
West Yorkshire Fire 1,369,725
Wiltshire 1,288,607
Winchester 1,193,032
Windsor And Maidenhead 627,321
Woking 1,617,037
Wokingham 2,607,303
Worcester 1,304,636
Worthing 741,403
Wychavon 3,228,455
Wyre 1,098,328
Wyre Forest 687,123
York 139,024
  1. Treasury consent is required under section 31(6) of the Local Government Act 2003 for grants to local authorities in England.