Mark Pack

Freeing up local council finances: details published

By | Thu 10th June 2010 - 8:20 pm

The Government has today published details of its plans to reduce the ring-fencing restrictions around how local government can spend money. The timing is rather double-edged; giving more control over their own finances to local councils has long been a Liberal Democrat demand, but there’s no doubt that Eric Pickles will also have been attracted by the idea of making councils decide where to make future cuts. Even so, it’s a step in the right direction.

The overall effect is a:

Reduction in revenue and capital non-schools ring-fencing this year from 10.7 per cent (£4.5bn) to only 7.7 per cent (£3.2bn) as a first step to giving councils more freedom over spending decisions.

In detail that means:

Revenue schemes
Youth Opportunity Fund
Think Family Grant
Challenge and Support Funding
AIDS Support
Learning Disability Campus Closure Programme
Stroke Strategy
Bus Challenge and Kickstart
Animal Health and Welfare Enforcement
Waste Management Pilots

Capital grants
Fair Play Pathfinders
Fair Play Playbuilders
Innovation in Extracare Housing Grant
Capital Investment for Transformation in Adult Social Care Grant
AIDS/HIV
Common Assessment Framework
Social Care IT Infrastructure
Detrunking
Major Projects
NEXUS (Tyne and Wear Metro)
Green Bus Fund
Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management
Coastal Change Pathfinders
Contaminated Land
Housing Market Renewal

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4 Comments

  • Tim Leunig 11th Jun '10 - 12:17am

    Without googling it, how many readers know what “detrunking” is?

  • Andrew Suffield 11th Jun '10 - 7:14am

    Or a “Fair Play Playbuilder” or “Coastal Change Pathfinder” while you’re on the subject of obscure headings. Even the ones I can identify are mostly not things I can associate with actual places where the money is being spent.

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