§ Sir Paul BeresfordTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to his answer of 23 February 2004,Official Report, columns 27–28W, on local government finance, what the total gross English local authority expenditure was for each year since 1992–93, including that sourced from council tax, central grant and any other source, as well as those services funded by other bodies since 1992–93. [156726]
§ Mr. RaynsfordEnglish local authority gross expenditure 1992–93 to 2001–02 is listed in the following table.
£ million 1992–93 69,351 1993–94 69,102 1994–95 71,700 1995–96 73,568 1996–97 75,596 1997–98 77,209 1998–99 81,431 1999–2000 84,824 2000–01 90,179 2001–02 97,794 Notes: Gross expenditure here includes spending from the General Fund Revenue Account, the Housing Revenue Account, External Trading Services accounts and the Capital Account. Adjustments have been made to eliminate double counting where possible. The General Fund Revenue Account is financed from formula grant (which includes revenue support grant, redistributed non-domestic rates, police grant), and specific grants within Aggregate External Finance (AEF) as well as specific grants outside AEF, sales, fees and charges and other non-grant income. The answer of 23 February, was restricted to the General Fund Revenue Account and excluded specific grants outside AEF and sales, fees and charges and other non-grant income. Source: Local Government Financial Statistics England No.5 to No. 14