Policy paper

Change in spending power: final local government finance settlement 2014 to 2015

Final local government finance settlement 2014 to 2015: change in spending power.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England

Documents

Spending power summary

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Spending power 2014 to 2015 supporting information

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Spending power 2015 to 2016 supporting information

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Explanatory note

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Details

Spending power measures the overall revenue funding available for local authority services, including Council Tax, locally retained business rates and government grants.

The 3 spreadsheets contain the following information:

  • summary tables showing year-on-year change in spending power for each local authority and spending power per dwelling for local authorities for both 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016
  • supporting information showing the component figures (from Council Tax, locally retained business rates and government grants) which are included in spending power for each local authority for 2014 to 2015
  • supporting information showing the components figures (from Council Tax, locally retained business rates and government grants) which are included in spending power for each local authority for 2015 to 2016

The explanatory note sets out the methodology used to calculate the change in spending power in 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016.

Published 5 February 2014