[Withdrawn] COVID Winter Grant Scheme determination: 1 April 2021 to 16 April 2021
Updated 6 July 2021
Applies to England
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The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (“the Secretary of State”), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003, makes the following determination:
Citation
1. This determination may be cited as the COVID Winter Grant Scheme Determination 2020 No 31/5426. Purpose of the grant
2. The purpose of the grant is to provide support to upper tier local authorities in England for expenditure lawfully incurred or to be incurred by them in accordance with the grant conditions to provide support over the winter to children and households who are experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, poverty, where they are impacted by the ongoing public health emergency and where alternative sources of assistance may be unavailable.
Determination
3. The Secretary of State determines as set out in Annex A, the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid.
Grant conditions
4. Pursuant to section 31(3) and 31(4) of the Local Government Act 2003, the Secretary of State determines that the grant will be paid subject to the conditions in Annex B.
Annex A
| County council or unitary authority (UA) | DWP allocation |
|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | £302,480 |
| Barnet | £343,114 |
| Barnsley | £328,913 |
| Bath and North East Somerset | £134,435 |
| Bedford | £167,672 |
| Bexley | £215,445 |
| Birmingham | £1,803,918 |
| Blackburn with Darwen | £224,568 |
| Blackpool | £244,991 |
| Bolton | £386,195 |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | £371,401 |
| Bracknell Forest | £76,904 |
| Bradford | £792,765 |
| Brent | £397,158 |
| Brighton and Hove | £300,860 |
| Bristol City of | £570,302 |
| Bromley | £262,078 |
| Buckinghamshire | £336,350 |
| Bury | £215,339 |
| Calderdale | £255,177 |
| Cambridgeshire | £507,387 |
| Camden | £272,292 |
| Central Bedfordshire | £204,088 |
| Cheshire East | £306,093 |
| Cheshire West and Chester | £321,729 |
| City of London | £7,011 |
| Cornwall | £636,739 |
| Coventry | £449,373 |
| Croydon | £419,542 |
| Cumbria | £520,225 |
| Darlington | £126,828 |
| Derby | £312,705 |
| Derbyshire | £758,227 |
| Devon | £710,157 |
| Doncaster | £418,396 |
| Dorset | £320,584 |
| Dudley | £367,847 |
| Durham | £650,974 |
| Ealing | £371,628 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | £286,842 |
| East Sussex | £554,473 |
| Enfield | £399,635 |
| Essex | £1,334,287 |
| Gateshead | £257,380 |
| Gloucestershire | £524,139 |
| Greenwich | £336,411 |
| Hackney | £400,490 |
| Halton | £180,764 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | £203,417 |
| Hampshire | £1,007,725 |
| Haringey | £342,895 |
| Harrow | £204,749 |
| Hartlepool | £137,998 |
| Havering | £231,087 |
| Herefordshire | £187,027 |
| Hertfordshire | £866,869 |
| Hillingdon | £289,004 |
| Hounslow | £286,245 |
| Isle of Wight | £158,821 |
| Isles Of Scilly | £1,442 |
| Islington | £304,980 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | £164,042 |
| Kent | £1,565,837 |
| Kingston upon Hull City of | £427,299 |
| Kingston upon Thames | £119,444 |
| Kirklees | £517,219 |
| Knowsley | £257,513 |
| Lambeth | £388,824 |
| Lancashire | £1,363,058 |
| Leeds | £986,468 |
| Leicester | £487,309 |
| Leicestershire | £508,316 |
| Lewisham | £376,331 |
| Lincolnshire | £772,976 |
| Liverpool | £847,834 |
| Luton | £254,726 |
| Manchester | £897,422 |
| Medway | £315,871 |
| Merton | £165,547 |
| Middlesbrough | £229,320 |
| Milton Keynes | £251,068 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | £398,948 |
| Newham | £470,772 |
| Norfolk | £952,759 |
| North East Lincolnshire | £218,483 |
| North Lincolnshire | £185,145 |
| North Somerset | £183,700 |
| North Tyneside | £224,228 |
| North Yorkshire | £499,013 |
| Northamptonshire | £723,355 |
| Northumberland | £345,045 |
| Nottingham | £491,668 |
| Nottinghamshire | £805,153 |
| Oldham | £338,848 |
| Oxfordshire | £475,549 |
| Peterborough | £258,532 |
| Plymouth | £321,935 |
| Portsmouth | £266,171 |
| Reading | £161,481 |
| Redbridge | £274,259 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | £181,742 |
| Richmond upon Thames | £117,107 |
| Rochdale | £325,716 |
| Rotherham | £350,218 |
| Rutland | £21,909 |
| Salford | £378,711 |
| Sandwell | £488,307 |
| Sefton | £340,858 |
| Sheffield | £726,695 |
| Shropshire | £292,592 |
| Slough | £165,176 |
| Solihull | £196,712 |
| Somerset | £537,180 |
| South Gloucestershire | £197,867 |
| South Tyneside | £207,539 |
| Southampton | £313,183 |
| Southend-on-Sea | £199,442 |
| Southwark | £386,465 |
| St. Helens | £249,027 |
| Staffordshire | £772,271 |
| Stockport | £301,674 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | £236,223 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £376,703 |
| Suffolk | £722,385 |
| Sunderland | £372,630 |
| Surrey | £739,234 |
| Sutton | £160,612 |
| Swindon | £213,781 |
| Tameside | £311,010 |
| Telford and Wrekin | £211,842 |
| Thurrock | £181,821 |
| Torbay | £173,985 |
| Tower Hamlets | £418,230 |
| Trafford | £204,502 |
| Wakefield | £437,747 |
| Walsall | £394,491 |
| Waltham Forest | £328,717 |
| Wandsworth | £290,705 |
| Warrington | £202,206 |
| Warwickshire | £488,309 |
| West Berkshire | £96,955 |
| West Sussex | £691,676 |
| Westminster | £266,431 |
| Wigan | £390,942 |
| Wiltshire | £385,170 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | £82,168 |
| Wirral | £425,734 |
| Wokingham | £72,555 |
| Wolverhampton | £369,174 |
| Worcestershire | £558,760 |
| York | £144,875 |
| Total | £59,100,000 |
Annex B
COVID Winter Grant No.2 Scheme Determination 2021 No 31/5425 scheme grant conditions
1. An additional grant (‘the No.2 grant’) will be paid to authorities as determined in the table in the Annex A to this letter. The No. 2 grant will be for the same purpose and subject to the same conditions as set out in the COVID Winter Grant Scheme Determination 2020 No 31/5256 (‘the No.1 grant’), save as set out in this Annex.
2. The No.2 grant will be paid to each authority in two instalments:
a) 75% in April 2021; and
b) 25% in May/June 2021, subject to any offsetting in accordance with paragraph 20 of Annex B to the No.1 grant (following receipt of the second Statement of Grant Usage and Progress Report and Management Information Return).
3. The conditions of the No.1 grant, as set out in Annex B to the No.1 grant, are varied for the purposes of the Nos.1 and 2 grants as follows:
a) in paragraph 1 of Annex B, ‘the period’ runs until 16 April 2021;
b) in paragraph 10(b) of Annex B, the deadline for the second Statement of Grant Usage and Progress Report and Management Information Return is now 5 May 2021, with the final grant instalment in paragraph (c) of Annex C to follow receipt in May/June 2021;
c) the second Statement of Grant Usage and Progress Report and Management Information Return for the Nos.1 and 2 grants are to be combined;
d) compliance with the conditions in paragraph 5 of Annex B will be determined using the combined Statement of Grant Usage and Management Information Return for the Nos 1 and 2 grants; and
e) the guidance referred to in paragraph 3 of Annex B which has been issued is varied accordingly.
4. This is a grant determination under section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003 and may be cited as COVID Winter Grant No.2 Scheme Determination 2021 No 31/5425. Before making this determination in relation to the upper tier local authorities in England, the Secretary of State obtained the consent of the Treasury.