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Proposal development contributions: area allocations

Funding has been allocated to each area that has been invited to submit proposals for Local Government Reorganisation.

​​​£7.6 million has been made available to areas submitting proposals for unitary local government in the form of Local Government Reorganisation Proposal Development Contributions. This is the first time capacity funding has been made available for reorganisation proposals, recognising the priority that this government attaches to this.

Each of the 21 areas will receive a flat rate of £135,000, plus an additional 20p per person based on the latest ONS population estimates. Areas must agree on up to three councils to receive an equal share of the funding for the area. This page will be updated once payments to councils have been made. 

​The allocation is as follows:

Area Allocation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough £318,816
Derbyshire and Derby £350,582
Devon, Plymouth and Torbay £383,326
East Sussex and Brighton £302,024
Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock £514,318
Gloucestershire £266,855
Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton £542,174
Hertfordshire £378,077
Kent and Medway £514,410
Lancashire, Blackburn and Blackpool £449,075
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland £365,888
Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire £357,246
Norfolk £321,389
Nottinghamshire and Nottingham £369,754
Oxfordshire £285,046
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent £367,336
Suffolk £290,288
Surrey £380,734
Warwickshire £258,565
West Sussex £315,172
Worcestershire £257,837

Updates to this page

Published 3 June 2025