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 |