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Policy Paper Published 29 Jan 2019 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government ↗ View on GOV.UK

Core spending power: final local government finance settlement 2019 to 2020

Spending power measures the overall revenue funding available for local authority services.

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Core spending power measures the core revenue funding available for local authority services, including Council Tax and locally retained business rates. This page has:

  • an explanatory note which sets out the methodology used to calculate core spending power in 2019 to 2020
  • a summary table which shows the change in core spending power over the Spending Review period, year-on-year changes and core spending power per dwelling
  • supporting information, which shows the component figures (from Council Tax, locally retained business rates and so on) which are included in core spending power for each local authority.
  • a summary table which shows certain notional funding elements which have been kept visible