Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much Lancashire County Council received from the Revenue Support Grant in each of the last three years.
Answered by Marcus Jones
Local authority financing information is available in the revenue outturn statistics
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing
Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the funding allocation to the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership has been in each year since its inception; and what that funding allocation is for 2016-17.
Answered by Andrew Percy
Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership is currently directing and influencing a significant growth programme of nearly £1 billion of investment. This includes £69.8 million which was recently announced for its third growth deal, bringing the total award through the Local Growth Fund to £320.9 million for 2015-2021. Further details of this funding are published here:
Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of its total annual budget Lancashire County Council received from the Local Government Grant (Local Government Finance Settlement), for each budget heading, in 2016-17; and what such proportion, by budget heading, that council has been allocated to receive in 2017-18.
Answered by Marcus Jones
For 2016-17, Lancashire received £118.8 million in Revenue Support Grant (RSG) as part of the Local Government Finance Settlement. Lancashire had a budgeted Revenue Expenditure of £1.7 billion in 2016-17. RSG was equivalent to 7.1% of this budgeted figure.
For 2017-18, Lancashire is provisionally set to receive £81.5 million in RSG. Local authority budget figures are not available for 2017-18. Budget Revenue Account figures are scheduled to be published in the summer.
Revenue Support Grant is un-hypothecated. The funding has no specific conditions attached to it and any spend on services financed by the grant is not ring-fenced.
Local authorities are best placed to assess, deliver and take decisions on financing the services their communities need, and are locally accountable for those decisions.
Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much Lancashire County Council received from central government in grants, excluding monies received from the local government finance settlements, in the last financial year.
Answered by Marcus Jones
In 2015-16, Lancashire County Council received £1.1 billion in central government grants.
This includes Specific and special revenue grants, Local Services Support Grant (LSSG) and Capital grants from central government departments but does not include Revenue Support Grant or the Police Grant which form part of the Local Government Finance Settlement.
The authority may additionally receive grants from other organisations. These would be recorded against the relevant service lines within the Other Income category in the Revenue Outturn statistics.
Central Government Grant Income (excluding Settlement) for Lancashire, 2015-16
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£ million | 2015-16 |
Specific and special revenue grants | 991.1 |
Local Services Support Grant (LSSG) | 2.8 |
Capital grants from central government departments | 129.8 |
Total Grant Income | 1,123.7 |
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Source: Local Authority Revenue Outturn and Capital Outturn Returns 2015-16
The level of non-ringfenced reserves for Lancashire County Council, as of the 31st March 2016, was £314.6 million.
Reserves held by Lancashire, as of 31 March 2016
£ million | 31 March 2016 |
Schools Reserves | 79.8 |
Public Health Reserves | 6.2 |
Earmarked Reserves | 278.0 |
Unallocated Reserves | 36.6 |
Source: Local Authority Revenue Outturn and Capital Outturn Returns 2015-16
Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what applications have been submitted to Lancashire County Council to regenerate land in (a) Morecambe and Lunesdale and (b) Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency.
Answered by Andrew Percy
The Department is not aware of any such applications but this question should be addressed to Lancashire County Council.
Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what applications have been submitted to Lancashire County Council on regeneration in South Heysham.
Answered by Andrew Percy
The Department is not aware of any such applications but this question should be addressed to Lancashire County Council.