Deputy Prime Minister written question – answered at on 7 February 2005.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to his answer of 24 January 2005, Official Report, column 1978W, on local government finance, for which grants Torbay unitary authority may apply; for which grants Torbay unitary authority has applied; and for which grants applications were successful.
The following table lists all grants allocated to Torbay unitary authority in 2004–05 within aggregate external finance (AEF) in addition to revenue support grant and national non-domestic rates. These were the grants referred to in the answer of
Grant | Amount |
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Standards Fund | 2.809 |
Teachers' Pay Reform | 1.855 |
Sure Start General Grant | 1.670 |
Leadership Incentive | 0.364 |
Transitional Support | 0.182 |
School Standards | 2.007 |
Safeguarding Children | 0.230 |
Carers Grant | 0.372 |
Training Support | 0.161 |
National Training Strategy | 0.083 |
Preserved Rights | 3.480 |
Adoption Support and Special Guardianship | 0.059 |
Choice Protects | 0.077 |
Human Resources Development Strategy | 0.063 |
Access and Systems Capacity | 1.542 |
Children and Adolescent Mental Health | 0.155 |
Residential Allowance | 1.793 |
Teenage Pregnancy Local Implementation | 0.101 |
Mental Health | 0.342 |
AIDS Support | 0.018 |
Delayed Discharge | 0.337 |
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit administration(19) | 1.160 |
Performance Standards(20) | 0.266 |
Civil Defence | 0.067 |
Waste Targeted Grant | 0.057 |
Probation Loan Charges | 0.060 |
Neighbourhood Wardens | 0.034 |
Planning Delivery | 0.510 |
Supporting People | 6.130 |
Supporting People Administration | 0.155 |
Magistrates Courts | 0.854 |
Rural Bus Subsidy | 0.015 |
Homelessness Strategies(21) | 0.060 |
Private Finance Initiative | 1.800 |
(19)Authorities need to submit management information to receive the correct amounts of housing benefits and council tax benefits administration.
(20)The amount for the HB/CTB Performance Standards is an amount that the local authority has applied for and has been awarded. Payment is dependent on payment progressing.
(21)Part of grant involves a bid and payment is dependent on key homelessness indicators.
Some grants are also provided on the basis of eligibility (such as some Standards Fund initiatives where schools might receive support as a result of being designated for a particular role, or in the case of the Teacher Pay Reform Grants where grant is paid on the basis of information held about teacher numbers and salaries).
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