§ Mr. ColemanTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellors Department what specific or direct grants have been made by her Department to local authorities for 2003–04(a) in England and (b) broken down by local authority, identifying whether the grant 307W is (i) ring fenced, (ii) a specific formula grant, (iii) within aggregate external finance and (iv) outside aggregate external finance. [114916]
§ Yvette CooperMy Department provides separate grants for revenue and capital (buildings and IT) to local authorities to meet 80 per cent. of Magistrates courts costs. The remainder is met by the local authorities.
Revenue grant is ringfenced within aggregate external finance. The capital grants are ringfenced but outside aggregate external finance.
The total 2003–04 grants (at the 80 per cent. level) to be made available for Magistrates courts in England are:
£ million Revenue 309.9 Building 114.6 IT 16.0 Total grant 330.5 1 Being at 80 per cent. this excludes Supplementary Credit Approval A breakdown of total payments to be made during 2003–04 cannot be provided as grants may be subject to change, and are paid on a quarterly basis throughout the year. Magistrates courts are organised into 42 Committees and a lead paying authority acts on behalf of the various authorities covered by each Committee. Grant payments are made to this lead authority as detailed in the following table.
This shows current total 2003–04 revenue grant allocation figures. A precise breakdown of capital figures is not yet available because the process of allocating them is underway.
308W
£ Lead Authority Revenue paid to date Buildings paid to date Somerset 1,944,579 30,400 Bedfordshire 730,598 20,160 Buckinghamshire 2,515,231 725,112 Cambridgeshire 951,673 48,605 Cheshire 1,147,774 62,456 Cleveland 985,173 155,248 Cornwall 1,646,697 15,239 Cumbria 937,753 0 Derbyshire 1,163,212 0 Dorset 787,287 11,488 Durham 944,316 36,132 East Sussex 1,799,000 132,307 Essex 1,775,640 12,403 Gloucestershire 833,951 17,759 Hampshire 2,123,428 43,018 Hereford and Worcester 1,700,251 9,200 Hertfordshire 1,176,060 22,749 Humberside 1,501,038 64,662 Kent 1,712,538 63,082 Lancashire 1,928,561 167,203 Leicestershire 1,117,306 6,359 Lincolnshire 794,483 15,557 Norfolk 950,369 85,626 North Yorkshire 948,350 126,228 Northamptonshire 803,381 73,387 Newcastle Upon Tyne 2,267,362 89,120 Nottinghamshire 1,831,597 16,845 Staffordshire 1,286,249 12,656 Suffolk 724,739 5,569
£ Lead Authority Revenue paid to date Buildings paid to date Surrey 999,474 72,136 Warwickshire 530,674 0 Wiltshire 928,019 18,599 Bolton 4,173,629 126,786 Sefton 2,371,514 35,898 Barnsley 1,810,818 56,616 Birmingham 4,082,975 197,378 Leeds 3,064,008 102,800 GLMCA 15,000,000 80,000 Total 56,989,707 2,678,782 Note: All figures are in 80 per cent. grant terms No IT capital grant payments have yet been made this year