§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will make a statement on the Strategic Rail Authority's funding approach to the south-west. [41145]
Revenue and capital grants paid to Liverpool city council £000 Outturn Budget 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 Revenue funding Specific and special grants inside AEF1 18,192 20,488 20,132 42,626 71,010 Revenue support grant 263,399 284,715 296,909 298,271 311,827 Redistributed non-domestic rates 102,791 106,533 114,392 128,468 124,481 Revenue grants paid into GFRA2 384,382 411,736 431,433 469,365 507,318 Capital funding Credit approvals 17,995 27,823 30,565 40,082 25,010 Central Government grants3 18,259 22,190 19,125 17,958 11,266 Total funding 420,636 461,749 481,123 527,405 543,594 1 Aggregate external finance (AEF) is central Government support towards total standard spending. It comprises RSG, NNDR, and certain specific, supplementary and special grants. Within specific grants inside AEF, reported standards fund grant increased from about? 2 million in 1999–2000 to about £20 million in 2000–01, and Neighbourhood Renewal Fund was budgeted to be £10.006 million in 2001–02. 2 This includes all revenue grants paid into the General Fund Revenue Account (GFRA), but may exclude certain public funding, for example from some non-departmental public bodies, which is recorded as income and is not separately identifiable. 3 Includes capital grants from all central Government Departments (including specified capital grants) but excludes capital grants from the European Union, non-departmental public bodies, and the National Lottery. Sources:
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