§ Lord Bassam of BrightonMy right honourable friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office has made the following Written Ministerial Statement today.
The aggregate of civil defence grants to be made for the financial year 2004–05 is £19,038,000. £100,000 will be retained as discretionary grant for special projects and special events deemed of benefit to the wider civil protection community in England and Wales. The remaining £18,938,000 will be allocated to individual authorities as set out below.
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Local Authority Grant Allocation 2004–05 (£) Anglesey/Ynys Mon 61,342 Barking & Dagenham 75,969 Barnet 80,694 Barnsley 76,076 Bath & North East Somerset 90,011 Bedfordshire 136,511 Bexley 78,758 Birmingham 187,380 Blackburn with Darwen 70,658 Blackpool 66,662 Blaenau Gwent 63,083 Bolton 82,674 Bournemouth 70,122 Bracknell Forest 63,899 Bradford 125,756 Brent 86,592 Bridgend 68,323 Brighton & Hove 81,172 Bristol 98,486 Bromley 84,980 Buckinghamshire 200,557 Bury 71,195 Caerphilly 73,088 Calderdale 74,574 49WS
Local Authority Grant Allocation 2004–05 (£) Cambridgeshire 163,057 Camden 84,175 Cardiff 87,322 Carmarthenshire 73,858 Ceredigion 64,143 Cheshire 189,969 Conwy 64,811 Cornwall 189,279 Corporation of London 60,145 Coventry 77,776 Croydon 90,666 Cumbria 216,116 Darlington 63,899 Denbighshire 71,434 Derby 76,503 Derbyshire 220,459 Devon 217,294 Doncaster 85,516 Dorset 175,886 Dudley 82,908 Durham 213,601 Ealing 90,344 East Riding of Yorkshire 72,166 East Sussex 208,288 Enfield 88,198 Essex 315,112 Flintshire 77,741 Gateshead 79,140 Gloucestershire 189,960 Greater Manchester FCDA 64,060 Greenwich 86,482 Gwynedd 67,698 Hackney 88,145 Hatton 68,137 Hammersmith and Fulham 76,719 Hampshire 298,996 Haringey 85,624 Harrow 65,726 Hartlepool 64,650 Havering 77,685 Herefordshire 70,229 Hertfordshire 310,886 Hillingdon 81,386 Hounslow 80,742 Hull (Kingston upon Hull) 72,265 Isle of Wight 72,230 Isles of Scilly 53,708 Islington 83,424 Kensington and Chelsea 74,788 Kent 339,586 Kingston upon Thames 67,654 Kirklees 95,431 Knowsley 74,359 Lambeth 87,789 Lancashire 315,233 Leeds 172,987 Leicester 88,896 Leicestershire 192,957 Lewisham 83,978 Lincolnshire 212,793 Liverpool 97,648 London FEPA 151,825 Luton 59,894 Manchester 147,667 Medway 81,547 Merseyside FCDA 73,332 Merthyr Tydfil 60,998 Merton 72,053 Middlesbrough 71,355 Milton Keynes 81,404 Monmouthshire 62,154 Neath Port Talbot 70,259 Newcastle Upon Tyne 102,823 Newham 88,226 50WS
Local Authority Grant Allocation 2004–05 (£) Newport 68,616 Norfolk 276,813 North East Lincolnshire 71,624 North Lincolnshire 69,532 North Somerset 71,248 North Tyneside 74,091 North Yorkshire 244,523 Northamptonshire 239,260 Northumberland 188,122 Nottingham 86,321 Nottinghamshire 210,927 Oldham 79,294 Oxfordshire 202,459 Pembrokeshire 66,735 Peterborough 72,214 Plymouth 81,708 Poole 66,635 Portsmouth 74,467 Powys 85,886 Reading 67,386 Redbridge 82,566 Redcar and Cleveland 69,693 Rhondda Cynon Taff 82,319 Richmond upon Thames 69,424 Rochdale 77,310 Rotherham 81,654 Rutland 56,443 Salford 72,386 Sandwell 88,413 Sefton 84,015 Sheffield 96,386 Shropshire 153,834 Slough 68,566 Solihull 73,716 Somerset 164,359 South Gloucestershire 76,183 South Tyneside 71,516 South Yorkshire FCDA 84,356 Southampton 77,470 Southend 71,966 Southwark 77,343 St Helens 73,333 Staffordshire 226,842 Stockport 79,992 Stockton-on-Tees 73,877 Stoke-on-Trent 74,413 Suffolk 221,786 Sunderland 101,107 Surrey 297,388 Sutton 73,126 Swansea 78,933
Local Authority Grant Allocation 2004–05 (£) Swindon 71,355 Tameside 77,310 Telford and Wrekin 72,385 Thurrock 68,666 Torbay 67,440 Torfaen 64,876 Tower Hamlets 93,509 Trafford 75,754 Tyne & Wear FCDA 34,892 Vale of Glamorgan 72,385 Wakefield 86,667 Walsall 83,639 Waltham Forest 83,532 Wandsworth 79,155 Warrington 72,804 Warwickshire 181,722 West Berkshire 67,815 West Midlands FCDA 60,386 West Sussex 225,386 West Yorkshire FCDA 61,593 Westminster 86,804 Wigan 84,497 Wiltshire 194,786 Windsor and Maidenhead 66,796 Wirral 89,861 Wokingham 66,525 Wolverhampton 82,030 Worcestershire 186,835 Wrexham 72,926 York 72,220 To determine the individual allocations the following formula was adopted:
Each authority received £53,000. Each county council received £12,000 in respect of each shire district within the authority's boundaries. These flat-rate payments accounted for approximately 65 per cent of the aggregate grant in recognition of the fact that every authority, regardless of size and population, would incur similar unavoidable costs in conducting the basic civil protection function.
The remaining 35 per cent of the aggregate grant was distributed according to the Bellwin threshold, using population size as a proxy for the scale of the civil protection that authorities need to undertake.
This formula is retained by agreement with the Local Government Association.