Tory Government reduce grant to Cambridgeshire County Council

An email appears below from Cambridge County Council about their Autumn Budget Settlement.

When will the County Council stand up to Central Government - When will the County Council represent their constituents rather than their party and speak out about the unfair cuts to their budgets?

How your County Council, City Council, Police and Fire Service are funded

The County Council is responsible for Roads, road markings and most trees, Pavements, Parking, Libraries, some elements of Welfare, Education,

The City Council is responsible for Planning, Recreation, Bins, Rubbish and Recycling,

From: Count Steve Cllr [mailto:Steve.Count@cambridgeshire.gov.uk]

Sent: 23 December 2015 15:56To: John (Cllr) Clark (jclark@fenland.gov.uk); 'james.palmer@eastcambs.gov.uk' (james.palmer@eastcambs.gov.uk); Ray Manning (ray@englishplums.co.uk); Ablewhite, Jason (Cllr) (Jason.Ablewhite@huntingdonshire.gov.uk); Lewis Herbert; 'Paul Medd'; 'John Hill (John.Hill@eastcambs.gov.uk)' (John.Hill@eastcambs.gov.uk); Antoinette Jackson; Jean.Hunter@scambs.gov.uk (Jean.Hunter@scambs.gov.uk) (Jean.Hunter@scambs.gov.uk); 'Jo Lancaster (joanne.lancaster@huntingdonshire.gov.uk)' (joanne.lancaster@huntingdonshire.gov.uk); Beasley Gillian; Malyon ChrisSubject: FW: Settlement

Importance: High

This is a brief note to let you know that the County Council is £11m worse off, compared to the figures we based our savings on before the autumn budget and our settlement figures were released. The budget did not cover the cost of the New Living wage which we had expected and that has a £6m implication. Our settlement under the new methodology was also £5m less than we anticipated. As part of the settlement figures there was some commentary that lower tier authorities grant would be re-directed over to upper tiers, but I can assure you that Cambridgeshire County Council is not a beneficiary.

Below is some more helpful analysis by way of explanation with is encapsulated in the following statement “all shire counties, even though they have care responsibilities, have lost funding to the benefit of metropolitan and London authorities.”

As the statement and the actual figures for Cambridgeshire at first sight appear contradictory I feel it would be helpful if you would circulate this to your members so they can understand our pressures are not only continuing but have in fact increased, since we drew up our initial draft savings plans.

Steve Count

Leader of Cambridgeshire County Council

Councillor for March North

Mob; 07989 032456

email; steve.count@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Blog site; http://cllrstevecount.wordpress.com

From: Malyon Chris
Sent: 23 December 2015 10:02
To: Members
Cc: Beasley Gillian
Subject: FW: Settlement
Importance: High

Dear Member

Those of you who are also district councillors may have received a briefing on the grant settlement from our district colleagues regarding the recent provisional grant settlement. That briefing may well have provided some commentary regarding the re-direction of grant from district councils to those with care responsibilities (sometimes referred to as Upper Tier organisations). As you know from the briefing that I circulated at the end of last week this County Council has lost a further £5m over and above the £15m that had originally been assumed. These two statements therefore seem on first appearance at odds with each other. However both are correct.

The issue is the mechanism that the Government has used to achieve this re-direction. Without getting into the complicated mechanics of it all shire counties, even though they have care responsibilities, have lost funding to the benefit of metropolitan and London authorities.

A summary of the actual distribution is set out below for your information. As can be seen Shire Counties are actually contributing £160m to the Met authorities and London.

	Revenue Support Grant
	16-17 Flat LA Change	16-17 Consultation Value	16-17 Redistributional Effect
Type of Authority	£m	£m	£m
English Upper-tier	6,484.717	6,448.155	-36.562
SCT Members	2,173.541	1,986.384	-187.157
Shire Counties	1,805.519	1,644.860	-160.659
Unitaries	1,524.780	1,503.117	-21.663
Metropolitan Districts	1,832.421	1,925.013	92.592
Inner London (inc City)	633.098	686.538	53.439
Outer London	688.899	688.626	-0.272

This County Council has been more adversely impacted than the average Shire County and I set out below a statement of the position for each County Council. AS you can see in pure cash terms we have lost 38% RSG year on year. When you take in to account changes to responsibilities in the system this reduction increases to over 40%.

	2015-16				2016-17				Change
	SFA	Baseline Funding	RSG	Tariff/Top-Up	SFA	Baseline Funding	RSG	Tariff/Top-Up	SFA	Baseline Funding	RSG	Tariff/Top-Up
	SFA	Baseline Funding	RSG	Tariff/Top-Up	SFA	Baseline Funding	RSG	Tariff/Top-Up	SFA	Baseline Funding	RSG	Tariff/Top-Up
SCT Members	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m
Bedford	57.631	29.170	28.460	-2.112	50.832	29.413	21.419	-2.130	-11.8%	0.8%	-24.7%	0.8%
Buckinghamshire	82.219	40.396	41.823	25.181	64.445	40.732	23.713	25.391	-21.6%	0.8%	-43.3%	0.8%
Cambridgeshire	113.021	59.352	53.669	36.055	93.193	59.846	33.347	36.355	-17.5%	0.8%	-37.9%	0.8%
Central Bedfordshire	59.177	29.201	29.976	-9.345	49.596	29.444	20.152	-9.423	-16.2%	0.8%	-32.8%	0.8%
Cheshire East	77.789	38.607	39.182	-28.849	65.268	38.929	26.340	-29.089	-16.1%	0.8%	-32.8%	0.8%
Cheshire West & Chester	92.274	48.061	44.213	-25.611	80.209	48.461	31.747	-25.824	-13.1%	0.8%	-28.2%	0.8%
Cornwall	191.748	101.777	89.971	20.856	167.922	102.625	65.297	21.030	-12.4%	0.8%	-27.4%	0.8%
Cumbria	159.256	80.641	78.615	61.533	139.871	81.313	58.558	62.046	-12.2%	0.8%	-25.5%	0.8%
Derbyshire	195.688	102.447	93.241	85.743	171.023	103.301	67.722	86.457	-12.6%	0.8%	-27.4%	0.8%
Devon	179.789	93.168	86.621	71.514	151.644	93.944	57.700	72.109	-15.7%	0.8%	-33.4%	0.8%
Dorset	70.732	36.394	34.338	25.740	56.143	36.697	19.446	25.955	-20.6%	0.8%	-43.4%	0.8%
East Riding of Yorkshire	92.705	48.312	44.393	5.834	80.887	48.714	32.173	5.882	-12.7%	0.8%	-27.5%	0.8%
East Sussex	133.223	68.130	65.093	56.828	113.805	68.698	45.107	57.302	-14.6%	0.8%	-30.7%	0.8%
Essex	321.092	160.319	160.774	117.624	279.593	161.655	117.938	118.604	-12.9%	0.8%	-26.6%	0.8%
Gloucestershire	136.226	68.770	67.456	48.308	119.248	69.343	49.905	48.711	-12.5%	0.8%	-26.0%	0.8%
Hampshire	225.865	109.145	116.721	65.673	190.818	110.054	80.764	66.220	-15.5%	0.8%	-30.8%	0.8%
Herefordshire	56.307	29.625	26.681	6.814	47.347	29.872	17.475	6.871	-15.9%	0.8%	-34.5%	0.8%
Hertfordshire	231.571	112.602	118.969	63.700	193.532	113.540	79.992	64.231	-16.4%	0.8%	-32.8%	0.8%
Isle of Wight	55.846	29.743	26.103	12.449	49.161	29.991	19.170	12.553	-12.0%	0.8%	-26.6%	0.8%
Kent	331.545	170.540	161.005	122.939	283.386	171.961	111.425	123.964	-14.5%	0.8%	-30.8%	0.8%
Lancashire	330.938	171.975	158.963	138.915	292.249	173.408	118.842	140.072	-11.7%	0.8%	-25.2%	0.8%
Leicestershire	112.392	56.159	56.233	36.439	93.619	56.627	36.992	36.743	-16.7%	0.8%	-34.2%	0.8%
Lincolnshire	195.837	101.167	94.670	81.745	172.361	102.010	70.351	82.426	-12.0%	0.8%	-25.7%	0.8%
Norfolk	279.113	140.698	138.416	114.729	250.382	141.870	108.511	115.685	-10.3%	0.8%	-21.6%	0.8%
North Yorkshire	120.678	61.461	59.218	42.588	99.345	61.973	37.372	42.943	-17.7%	0.8%	-36.9%	0.8%
Northamptonshire	161.453	83.517	77.936	57.471	140.078	84.213	55.865	57.950	-13.2%	0.8%	-28.3%	0.8%
Northumberland	119.543	62.548	56.995	23.859	104.529	63.069	41.459	24.058	-12.6%	0.8%	-27.3%	0.8%
Nottinghamshire	189.170	98.839	90.331	79.617	162.896	99.662	63.234	80.280	-13.9%	0.8%	-30.0%	0.8%
Oxfordshire	127.614	65.309	62.305	37.085	105.184	65.853	39.331	37.394	-17.6%	0.8%	-36.9%	0.8%
Shropshire	90.121	46.361	43.760	10.036	78.313	46.747	31.566	10.120	-13.1%	0.8%	-27.9%	0.8%
Somerset	119.546	61.993	57.553	47.599	104.750	62.509	42.241	47.996	-12.4%	0.8%	-26.6%	0.8%
Staffordshire	181.640	91.844	89.796	68.098	156.876	92.609	64.267	68.666	-13.6%	0.8%	-28.4%	0.8%
Suffolk	183.489	93.217	90.272	68.986	162.224	93.994	68.230	69.561	-11.6%	0.8%	-24.4%	0.8%
Surrey	214.286	104.487	109.799	58.915	172.436	105.357	67.078	59.406	-19.5%	0.8%	-38.9%	0.8%
Warwickshire	114.257	58.175	56.082	35.141	96.162	58.660	37.503	35.434	-15.8%	0.8%	-33.1%	0.8%
West Sussex	148.354	71.935	76.419	40.377	125.614	72.535	53.080	40.713	-15.3%	0.8%	-30.5%	0.8%
Wiltshire	104.251	52.542	51.709	-18.157	87.705	52.980	34.726	-18.308	-15.9%	0.8%	-32.8%	0.8%
Worcestershire	111.982	57.623	54.358	40.743	94.450	58.104	36.347	41.082	-15.7%	0.8%	-33.1%	0.8%

I hope this clarifies the position but if you have any questions please let me know. We will obviously be summarising the position in the report that is to be considered by GPC in January.

Hoping you all have a fantastic festive period.

Chris

Chris Malyon
Chief Finance Officer
Cambridgeshire County Council
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