The Major Precepting Authorities (Excessive Budget Requirements—Payments) (England) Regulations 2000

Rounding

8.  For the purposes of this Schedule the following rounding conventions will apply:

(a) the following amounts shall be rounded to the nearest thousand pounds—

• E (paragraph 1),

• G (paragraph 3(2)),

• K (paragraph 4(2)),

• L (paragraph 4(3)),

• grant allocated under the Principal Formula (paragraph 7),

• each of the sums aggregated in the calculation of the amount of P (paragraph 5(3)) and hence the amount of P,

• in the case of the Greater London Authority each of the sums aggregated in the calculation of P1 and P2 referred to in paragraph 5(3)(a) and hence the amount of P,

• R (paragraph 2(2)(a));

(b) T (paragraph 5(4)) shall be rounded to the nearest whole unit;

(c) amounts of C and M (paragraphs 2(2) and 5(1), shall be rounded to the nearest penny. Items P and T used in the calculation of C shall be rounded in accordance with sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above. R (which in the case of major precepting authorities other than the Greater London Authority is defined in section 44 of the 1992 Act) and which is used in the calculation of C, shall be rounded to the nearest thousand pounds;

(d) where the amount to be rounded is exactly one half of the relevant unit designated in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) above for rounding purposes, the rounding shall be upwards to the next unit.

TABLE A

MAJOR PRECEPTING AUTHORITIES

Prescribed proportion of council tax yield, guideline council taxand budget requirement in 1999–2000 and adjustment to SSA in 1999–2000

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Greater London Authority	0.155	£107.95	£2,104,822,000	Nil
Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District	0.155	£17.96	£17,601,000	Nil
COUNTY COUNCILS
Bedfordshire	0.105	£665.80	£273,913,000	Nil
Buckinghamshire	0.073	£578.90	£321,381,000	Nil
Cambridgeshire	0.085	£544.11	£333,064,000	Nil
Cheshire	0.097	£696.15	£480,213,000	Nil
Cornwall	0.151	£565.42	£343,640,000	Nil
Cumbria	0.134	£662.23	£361,266,000	Nil
Derbyshire	0.129	£666.30	£499,641,000	Nil
Devon	0.110	£594.62	£464,848,000	Nil
Dorset	0.093	£630.98	£252,499,000	Nil
Durham	0.155	£662.39	£373,659,000	Nil
East Sussex	0.122	£601.45	£338,240,000	Nil
Essex	0.116	£583.50	£909,632,000	£34,000
Gloucestershire	0.096	£561.33	£366,689,000	Nil
Hampshire	0.082	£584.49	£771,027,000	Nil
Hertfordshire	0.094	£553.26	£731,269,000	£68,000
Kent	0.120	£577.64	£966,887,000	Nil
Lancashire	0.140	£703.66	£855,268,000	Nil
Leicestershire	0.088	£621.87	£391,688,000	Nil
Lincolnshire	0.128	£582.98	£430,333,000	Nil
Norfolk	0.131	£582.83	£519,038,000	Nil
North Yorkshire	0.092	£562.01	£376,531,000	Nil
Northamptonshire	0.113	£564.26	£429,719,000	Nil
Northumberland	0.135	£683.65	£237,385,000	Nil
Nottinghamshire	0.133	£712.04	£531,652,000	Nil
Oxfordshire	0.082	£563.67	£371,522,000	Nil
Shropshire	0.107	£580.33	£186,456,000	Nil
Somerset	0.115	£580.99	£318,589,000	Nil
Staffordshire	0.107	£557.18	£530,893,000	Nil
Suffolk	0.119	£567.62	£438,289,000	Nil
Surrey	0.062	£564.60	£650,102,000	£128,000
Warwickshire	0.108	£622.80	£332,068,000	Nil
West Sussex	0.091	£570.60	£478,883,000	Nil
Wiltshire	0.082	£586.20	£270,146,000	Nil
Worcestershire	0.098	£537.05	£332,248,000	Nil
POLICE AUTHORITIES
Avon and Somerset	0.128	£57.33	£172,296,000	£415,000
Bedfordshire	0.122	£58.36	£63,111,000	£175,000
Cambridgeshire	0.098	£50.40	£74,968,000	£159,000
Cheshire	0.117	£56.27	£111,361,000	£268,000
Cleveland	0.155	£50.93	£81,925,000	£177,000
Cumbria	0.134	£75.61	£64,305,000	£157,000
Derbyshire	0.139	£59.88	£105,226,000	£260,000
Devon and Cornwall	0.135	£50.47	£174,873,000	£412,000
Dorset	0.106	£73.79	£76,746,000	£162,000
Durham	0.155	£50.78	£81,509,000	£178,000
Essex	0.125	£65.06	£177,123,000	£7,264,000
Gloucestershire	0.096	£60.34	£64,581,000	£156,000
Greater Manchester Police	0.155	£58.79	£382,227,000	£663,000
Hampshire	0.105	£52.39	£196,197,000	£528,000
Hertfordshire	0.094	£61.89	£116,347,000	£14,614,000
Humberside	0.155	£54.82	£114,569,000	£259,000
Kent	0.122	£50.59	£183,786,000	£508,000
Lancashire	0.154	£55.81	£181,049,000	£419,000
Leicestershire	0.126	£63.96	£106,603,000	£273,000
Lincolnshire	0.128	£82.90	£70,022,000	£135,000
Merseyside Police	0.155	£74.98	£246,573,000	£429,000
Norfolk	0.131	£56.04	£85,161,000	£181,000
North Yorkshire	0.098	£50.64	£77,843,000	£184,000
Northamptonshire	0.113	£72.41	£69,968,000	£173,000
Northumbria Police	0.155	£50.79	£213,360,000	£361,000
Nottinghamshire	0.155	£56.75	£128,693,000	£277,000
South Yorkshire Police	0.155	£56.71	£173,699,000	£369,000
Staffordshire	0.127	£75.68	£121,577,000	£310,000
Suffolk	0.119	£54.74	£69,810,000	£167,000
Surrey	0.062	£66.42	£114,366,000	£21,561,000
Sussex	0.116	£53.22	£168,374,000	£389,000
Thames Valley	0.083	£53.04	£227,166,000	£585,000
Warwickshire	0.108	£64.89	£55,000,000	£144,000
West Mercia	0.111	£56.05	£115,742,000	£281,000
West Midlands Police	0.155	£51.24	£381,838,000	£887,000
West Yorkshire Police	0.155	£54.76	£289,690,000	£619,000
Wiltshire	0.088	£65.59	£68,421,000	£163,000
FIRE AUTHORITIES
Greater Manchester Fire	0.155	£28.52	£86,756,000	Nil
Merseyside Fire	0.155	£37.83	£60,467,000	Nil
South Yorkshire Fire	0.155	£27.69	£39,766,000	Nil
Tyne and Wear Fire	0.155	£30.61	£41,009,000	Nil
West Midlands Fire	0.155	£26.77	£84,648,000	Nil
West Yorkshire Fire	0.155	£24.38	£65,405,000	Nil

TABLE B

Local authority contribution factor to council tax benefit costs

Column 1	Column 2
Amount of N	Z
Not exceeding 0.5	0.125
Exceeding 0.5 and not exceeding 1	0.25
Exceeding 1 and not exceeding 1.5	0.375
Exceeding 1.5 and not exceeding 2	0.5
Exceeding 2 and not exceeding 2.5	0.625
Exceeding 2.5 and not exceeding 3	0.75
Exceeding 3 and not exceeding 3.5	0.875
Exceeding 3.5	1