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Made | 7th February 2003 | ||
To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000 | |||
Coming into operation | 1st April 2003 |
General Grant
3.
The Department shall calculate the amount of resources element of general grant payable to a district council for a financial year, in accordance with the formula described in the Schedule.
4.
The Department shall use data, in the formula and measures applied to population to calculate the additional needs of a district council, based on the latest information available to the Department in the financial year ending on 31st March 2003 and on 31st March in each third successive financial year thereafter.
5.
A district council shall for each financial year, provide the Department with the details of the expenditure identified in Part III of the Schedule by 31st July of the financial year immediately following that year.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on
7th February 2003.
L.S.
J. Ritchie
A senior officer of the Department of the Environment
2.
The formula -
{ | District council gross penny rate product | } | { | District council home population adjusted | } | |||||
{ | × 100 | } | − | { | × 100 | } | = Surplus or negative variance | |||
{ | Northern Ireland gross penny rate product | } | { | Northern Ireland home population adjusted | } |
District council's negative variance | |
= percentage allocation of total grant | |
Total of district councils' negative variances |
4.
Measures, weighted in accordance with paragraph 6, to the extent specified in paragraph 5(1), which shall be applied to population data, to adjust for -
(b) an influx of additional population, are -
(c) sparsity, are -
Extent of adjustment
5.
- (1) For the purposes of paragraph 4, the extent of adjustment made to the population of a local government district shall be in the same proportion as the total Northern Ireland expenditure on each key service relative to specified needs is to the total Northern Ireland expenditure.
(2) The key services to which sub-paragraph (1) relates are -
Population Adjustment Methodology
6.
The Department shall adjust population to address -
(b) an influx of additional population into a local government district, by taking the following steps -
(c) sparsity in a local government district, by taking the following step -
application of mid-year population density data with a 25 percent weighting and private household data with a 75 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that refuse collection expenditure is to total expenditure.
7.
The total adjustment which the Department shall make to the home population of a local government district shall be the sum of the results, which may be positive or negative, of the adjustments made in accordance with paragraphs 6(a), 6(b) and 6(c).
Key Services | Net Expenditure | Capital Charges (Depreciation + Interest) | Adjusted Net Expenditure | |
Column A | Column B | Column C | Column D | |
1 | Net cost of services | |||
2 | Net Bank Interest +/- | NOT APPLICABLE | ||
3 | Adjusted Net Cost of Services (Sub-total rows 1 and 2) | |||
4 | Community Services | |||
5 | Economic Development | |||
6 | Tourism | |||
7 | Refuse Collection | |||
8 | Street Cleansing | |||
9 | Other Services (row 3 minus sum of rows 4 to 8) | |||
10 | TOTALS |
The Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure (ISBN 1 899203 43 5) is available from The Stationery Office (TSO), 16 Arthur Street, Belfast, BT1 4GD
[2] S.I. 1977/2157 (N.I. 28)back
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