Getting to grips with England's formula for local authority support

Stone, M.

doi:10.1080/09540962.2012.656022

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“…Equally, an increase in transfer grant would likely be the quickest and simplest way of solving the issue. Grants, however, inevitably generate political debate around how needs assessment drives distribution between areas (Gibson & Asthana, 2012;Stone, 2012;Vadean & Forder, 2018). Ambitious councils can see distribution methodologies as a hindrance, preventing any financial incentive to invest in their areas.…”

Section: Recurring Transfer Grantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grasping the nettle: the central–local constraints on local government funding in England

Muldoon‐Smith

Sandford

2021

Territory, Politics, Governance

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In England, the traditional method of central government redistribution and equalization between locations has been replaced with a greater emphasis on self-sufficiency and entrepreneurism. English local government now faces existential funding questionsa situation that is repeated around the world as the public sector manages the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. Financialization has figured large in the study of entrepreneurial behaviour. However, in England, legal and procedural constraints have driven authorities to seek revenue funding from other sources, principally seeking additional property-related revenues. In response, this article presents a novel typology of local government funding sources and offers an original analysis of their implications for local authorities' role. The empirical findings show that the buoyancy and quantum of many funding sources are constrained by prior evolution of location and centrallocal relations: they are not automatic routes to financialization. Conceptually, these findings reveal that methods of financialization, and the local government funding system within which they typically sit, are as likely to be constrained by the evolution and techniques of governance as they are accelerated by it. International debates around financialization, and wider concerns of how locations develop, would benefit from this account of the often-hidden nature and agency of local government funding systems.

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Section: Recurring Transfer Grantsmentioning

confidence: 99%