Provisional local government finance settlement: England, 2023 to 2024
This collection brings together all documents relating to the provisional local government finance settlement, 2023 to 2024.
On 6 February 2023 the final local government finance settlement: England, 2023 to 2024 was published.
The local government finance settlement is the annual determination of funding to local government. It needs to be approved by the House of Commons.
This collection covers the provisional local government finance settlement for 2023 to 2024. The final 2023 to 2024 settlement will be laid before the House of Commons in early 2023.
Introduction
This section contains the press release for the provisional settlement 2023-24 and the written ministerial statement made in Parliament by the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP on 19 December 2022.
Provisional settlement consultation 2023 to 2024
This section contains the provisional settlement consultation document and the accompanying draft policy impact statement.
The consultation runs for 4 weeks and the government is seeking views by 16 January 2022.
Provisional settlement 2023 to 2024
This section contains useful information for those interpreting the provisional local government finance settlement for 2023 to 2024, including:
- the draft local government finance report
- key information for local authorities
- key information for pools
- supplementary table and explanatory note for authorities with increased business rates retention arrangements
- breakdown of the settlement funding assessment calculation model
Core spending power of local authorities 2023 to 2024
Core spending power is a measure of the resources available to local authorities to fund service delivery. It sets out the funding made available to local authorities through the local government finance settlement. This section has:
- an explanatory note, which sets out the methodology used to calculate core spending power
- a summary table, which shows the change in core spending power since last year, and core spending power per dwelling
- supporting information, which shows the component figures (from Council Tax, locally retained business rates and so on) which are included in core spending power for each local authority