Core spending power: final local government finance settlement 2018 to 2019
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
- an explanatory table, which shows the change in core spending power over the Spending Review period, year-on-year changes and core spending power per dwelling
- an explanatory table, 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 supporting table showing funding elements which have been kept visible in the core spending power of local authorities