Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980

56 The block grant.E+W

(1)The amount of block grant for a year is the balance left after deducting the amount of domestic rate relief grant from the aggregate amount of the rate support grants.

(2)If—

(a)the council of a county F1 give notice to the Secretary of State that they do not wish to be paid block grant for any year; and

(b)he gives them notice that he consents to it not being paid to them,

no amount shall be payable to them by way of that grant for that year.

(3)Any amount that would be have been payable to them shall be distributed among [F2the councils of districts in the county] as part of their said block grant for the year.

(4)

F3(5)The amount to be paid to a authority under subsection (3) above shall bear the same proportion to the amount that would have been payable to the county council F1 as the gross rateable value of the authority’s area bears to the gross rateable value of the county F1

(6)Subject to subsection (7) below, the amount of block grant payable to a local authority is to be calculated by deducting from [F4their total expenditure in relation to] the year the product arrived at by multiplying their grant-related poundage by the gross rateable value of their area.

(7)The amount of block grant payable to a local authority, other than any amount payable under subsection (3) above, may not exceed [F4their total expenditure in relation to] the year.

(8)In this Part of this Act—

  • “grant-related expenditure”, in relation to each authority to whom block grant is payable for any year, means the aggregate for the year of their notional [F5total] expenditure having regard to their functions;

  • “grant-related poundage”, in relation to each such authority, means F6, a poundage related—

    (a)

    to a given ratio between their total expenditure and their grant-related expenditure; or

    (b)

    to a given difference between their total expenditure divided by their population and their grant-related expenditure so divided;

  • “gross rateable value”, in relation to each such authority, means the aggregate of the rateable values of the hereditaments in their area;

  • “rateable values”, in relation to hereditaments, means subject to subsection (14) below, rateable values ascribed to them in the valuation lists on a date to be specified for each year in the Rate Support Grant Report;

  • F7“valuation list” has the meaning assigned to it by section 115 of the M1General Rate Act 1967.

(9)The Secretary of State may—

(a)defray any expenditure incurred in any year in the provision of services for local authorities by any body specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State; and

(b)deduct from the aggregate amount of the block grant for that year, such amount, not exceeding the total of the expenditure so defrayed, as appears to him to be appropriate;

and any regulations made under section 2(7) of the M2Local Government Act 1974 shall have effect for the purposes of this subsection as if they had been made under it.

(10)Before F8 exercising his powers under subsection (9) above, the Secretary of State shall consult such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned and any local authority with whom consultation appears to him to be desirable.

(11)

F9(12)Regulations under subsection (9) above shall be made bt statutory instrument, and a statutory instrument containing such regulations shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(13)The reference to hereditaments in subsection (8) above includes a reference to a notional hereditament which a body is treated as occupying by virtue of any enactment.

(14)A Rate Support Grant Report may provide that for the year to which it relates the rateable value of hereditaments falling within any class of hereditaments shall be ascertained for the purposes of this Part of this Act otherwise than by reference to the values ascribed to them in the valuation list.

Textual Amendments

F7Definition of “total expenditure" repealed and superseded by Local Government Finance Act 1987 (c. 6, SIF 81:1), ss. 3(7)(8)(9), 11, Sch. 5

Marginal Citations

M11967 c. 9 (103:1,2).

M21974 c. 7 (81:1).