§ Mr. LuffTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the local authorities that both do not receive area cost adjustment and lose government grant in 2003–04 under the resource equalisation arrangements. [136724]
§ Mr. RaynsfordNo authority lost grant in 2003–04, as every authority received an increase of at least 3 per cent. The following authorities both do not receive area cost adjustment and had a lower increase than they would have done had the additional resource equalisation element not been introduced for 2003–04:
Shire Districts
- Bromsgrove
- Christchurch
- East Dorset
Shire Counties
- Cornwall
- Cumbria
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Dorset
- Durham
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Norfolk
- North Yorkshire
- Northumberland
- Nottinghamshire
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Worcestershire
Shire Unitary Authorities
- Bournemouth
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Herefordshire
- North Lincolnshire
- Poole
- Rutland
- Telford and the Wrekin
- Torbay
- York