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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 |
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|
16-17 |
16-17 |
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 |
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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 |
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|
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
Chris Malyon
Chief Finance Officer
Cambridgeshire County Council
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