Mr. MitchellTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will make a statement on per capita funding for North
Authority 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 North East Lincolnshire 162.17 171.91 178.53 185.52 221.11 Isle of Wight 171.48 181.65 188.13 194.18 221.74 Milton Keynes 132.00 167.60 142.32 146.03 196.45 Brighton and Hove 196.70 203.57 207.60 209.90 241.83 Portsmouth 180.33 187.73 192.98 194.91 237.43 Southampton 180.74 189.58 194.37 198.59 238.75 Bracknell Forest 122.36 127.64 130.62 133.99 176.71 West Berkshire 103.86 108.03 112.95 116.26 161.94 Reading 150.20 156.31 160.39 164.15 222.76 Slough 187.14 194.09 201.41 203.10 248.25 Windsor and Maidenhead 118.71 125.50 131.32 134.57 184.30 Wokingham 81.81 83.78 86.77 89.67 132.70 Medway 133.41 137.83 143.17 146.54 179.97 Average for South East Unitary Authorities 149.75 156.01 160.83 164.08 205.72 Formula Spending Shares are not grant, nor are they the Government's assessment of how much an authority should spend on a particular service, they are simply the formula used to calculate an authority's Revenue Support Grant. Funding for social services (as for all other services) is largely funded through redistributed business rates, Revenue Support Grant and council tax. The amount of funding each social service department receives is determined by the local authority taking into account local priorities. Revenue Support Grant is an unhypothecated block grant that may be spent on any service.