Communities and Local Government

Lord Stunell Excerpts

Wednesday 29th June 2011 Ministerial Corrections

[Caroline Flint]

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much funding his Department provided to each local authority for community cohesion projects in (a) 2011-12 and (b) each of the last three financial years.

[Official Report, 15 June 2011, Vol. 529, c. 787-91W.]

Letter of correction from Mr. Andrew Stunell:

An error has been identified in the text of the Minister’s answer given to the right hon. Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint) on 15 June 2011.

The full answer given was as follows:

[Andrew Stunell]

Between 2008-09 and 2010-11 funding for cohesion projects was provided to local authorities via unringfenced Area Based Grant In 2011-12, general unringfenced funding of £190.540 million was allocated to local authorities in England through Local Services Support Grant with the freedom to use it to meet locally identified priorities, including community cohesion.

The following table shows funding allocation for cohesion projects for each local authority from 2008-09 to 2010-11.

[Andrew Stunell]

Between 2008-09 and 2010-11 funding for cohesion projects was provided to local authorities via unringfenced Area Based Grant. The following table shows cohesion funding allocated to local authorities from 2008-09 to 2010-11.

For this spending period (2011-12 to 2014-15) the Government have given more freedom to local authorities to decide how to spend their money. Local authorities have an estimated revenue spending power of £52.7 billion in 2011-12, which is unringfenced, and is available to them to spend on local priorities, which may include community cohesion.