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Front loading Local Government cuts?

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted: October 28, 2010

A colleague in local government tells me that I missed the front-loading of the local government cuts in SR2010. According to analysis in their authority, local government faces a big hit in 2011/12:

“The spending review sets out real terms reductions of 26% in local authority budgets over the next four years. This compares with overall cuts of 8.3% across all departmental budgets. Local authority core funding from DCLG falls from £28.5bn in 2010-1 to £22.9bn in 2014-5. The fall in grant is more than 7% a year in real terms, and significantly front-loaded.

The percentage decrease to formula grant out of the total budget of £28.5bn across the 4 years is 10.71% in year 2011/12, 6.4% in 2012/13, 0.85% in 2013/14 and 5.6% in 2014/15.”

If these figures are correct (and to be honest I haven’t had time to check them) then this is a big front-loading exercise. I wonder if there is a “compensating” end-loading in some Whitehall budgets – it wouldn’t be the first time Whitehall had pushed the pain downwards, I think it’s called “devolution”.

About Colin Talbot

Colin Talbot is a Professor of Government, a former Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee and the Public Administration Select Committee and has appeared as expert witness many times in Parliament, the Scottish Parliament and NI Assembly. He's also advised Governments from the USA to Japan.

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