Guidance

Rural Services Delivery Grant Determination 2024 to 2025

Published 30 April 2024

Applies to England

Rural Services Delivery Grant Determination 2024-25: No. 31/7256

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government (“the Minister”), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003, hereby makes the following determination:

Citation

1. This determination may be cited as the Rural Services Delivery Grant Determination 2024-25 No. 31/7256

Purpose of the grant

2. The purpose of this grant is to provide un-ringfenced funding in recognition of the possible additional costs of delivering services in sparsely populated areas. This funding will continue to be distributed to the top-quartile of local authorities in England ranked by ‘super-sparsity’, a measure of rurality.

Determination

3. The Minister determines the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid as set out in Annex A of this determination.^{[footnote 1]}

4. Payment of the grant will be made in two instalments. The first in June 2024, and the second in December 2024.

Treasury consent

5. Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the Minister obtained the consent of the Treasury^{[footnote 2]}.

Signed by authority of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government.

Elsa Esberger
Deputy Director, Local Government Funding Strategy
30 April 2024

Annex A: Rural Services Delivery Grant 2024-25 allocations to local authorities

Local Authority	Allocation (£)
England Total	104,645,256
Ashford	112,832
Babergh	307,949
Bassetlaw	72,963
Boston	115,767
Braintree	30,046
Breckland	641,584
Chichester	256,760
Cotswold	818,120
Cumberland	3,234,133
Cumbria Fire	473,104
Derbyshire Dales	544,811
Devon	10,124,498
Devon and Somerset Fire	575,426
Dorset and Wiltshire Fire	66,723
Dorset Council	3,202,414
East Cambridgeshire	219,465
East Devon	306,359
East Lindsey	902,202
East Riding of Yorkshire	2,533,441
East Suffolk	336,921
Forest of Dean	170,075
Harborough	182,384
Hereford and Worcester Fire	148,194
Herefordshire	6,926,829
Horsham	13,842
Huntingdonshire	57,847
King’s Lynn And West Norfolk	628,535
Lincolnshire	9,417,799
Maldon	41,851
Malvern Hills	308,920
Melton	246,766
Mid Devon	633,784
Mid Suffolk	588,004
Newark And Sherwood	51,582
Norfolk	5,406,941
North Devon	421,247
North Kesteven	488,232
North Lincolnshire	279,096
North Norfolk	656,974
North Northamptonshire	45,763
North Yorkshire	14,291,585
North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner	698,918
Northumberland	3,178,119
Ribble Valley	146,559
Rother	83,382
Rutland	1,152,278
Shropshire	8,982,153
Shropshire Fire	434,332
Somerset	4,147,006
South Cambridgeshire	177,435
South Hams	554,148
South Holland	216,182
South Kesteven	400,092
South Norfolk	387,313
South Oxfordshire	57,348
Stafford	34,145
Staffordshire Moorlands	82,095
Stratford-on-Avon	406,206
Suffolk	2,950,214
Teignbridge	65,457
Tewkesbury	18,712
Torridge	643,565
Uttlesford	379,525
Vale of White Horse	12,360
Wealden	280,522
West Devon	630,619
West Lindsey	644,043
Westmorland and Furness	6,444,166
West Northamptonshire	508,294
West Oxfordshire	172,409
West Suffolk	234,771
Wiltshire	4,503,316
Winchester	62,889
Wychavon	74,915

1. Cornwall Council will not receive their Rural Services Delivery Grant as they have agreed to forgo this funding stream as part of their increased business rates retention arrangements. ↩

2. Treasury consent is required under section 31(6) of the Local Government Act 2003 for grants to local authorities in England. ↩