Statutory Instruments
2010 No. 2952
Rating And Valuation, England
The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
Made
13th December 2010
Laid before Parliament
14th December 2010
Coming into force
31st December 2010
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 143(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988( 1 ), makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 and shall come into force on 31st December 2010.
Amendments to the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1992
2.The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1992( 2 ) are amended as follows in relation to financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2011.
Rules for the calculation of non-domestic rating contributions
3. In Schedule 1—
(a) for paragraph 1(4), substitute—
“ (4) A special authority’s non-domestic rating contribution for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2011 shall be the amount calculated under sub-paragraph (2) less £10,200,000. ” ;
(b) in paragraph 4(4)—
(i) for “2010”, substitute “2011”; and
(ii) for “£84,442,000”, substitute “£84,000,000”; and
(c) for Part II, substitute—
“ PART II Cost Factors
| Name or description of authority | Cost factor |
|---|---|
| The councils of the districts of Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden and South Lakeland | 1.0035 |
| The councils of the metropolitan districts of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield | 1.0042 |
| The councils of the metropolitan districts of Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral | 1.0066 |
| The councils of the districts of Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Gedling, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, Nottingham and Rushcliffe | 1.0088 |
| The councils of the districts of Bournemouth, Christchurch, East Dorset, North Dorset, Poole, Purbeck, West Dorset and Weymouth and Portland | 1.0096 |
| The councils of the districts of Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Gravesham, Maidstone, Medway, Shepway, Swale, Thanet, Tonbridge and Malling and Tunbridge Wells | 1.0097 |
| The councils of the metropolitan districts of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton | 1.0114 |
| The councils of the districts of Braintree, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Colchester, Maldon, Rochford, Southend-on-Sea, Tendring and Uttlesford | 1.0115 |
| The councils of the districts of Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Northampton, South Northamptonshire and Wellingborough | 1.013 |
| The councils of the districts of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington | 1.0162 |
| The councils of the districts of Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud and Tewkesbury | 1.017 |
| The councils of the districts of North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick | 1.0187 |
| The councils of the metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan | 1.0189 |
| The council of the district of Swindon | 1.0234 |
| The council of the County of Wiltshire | 1.0234 |
| The councils of the districts of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton, North Hertfordshire and Stevenage | 1.0325 |
| The councils of the districts of Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire, Peterborough and South Cambridgeshire | 1.0351 |
| The councils of the districts of Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset | 1.0376 |
| The councils of the districts of Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Hart, Havant, New Forest, Portsmouth, Rushmoor, Southampton, Test Valley and Winchester | 1.038 |
| The councils of the districts of Cherwell, Oxford, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse and West Oxfordshire | 1.0493 |
| The councils of the districts of Basildon, Brentwood, Dartford, Epping Forest, Harlow, Sevenoaks and Thurrock | 1.0775 |
| The councils of the districts of Aylesbury Vale, Milton Keynes and Wycombe | 1.0784 |
| The councils of the districts of Broxbourne, Chiltern, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, South Bucks, St Albans, Three Rivers, Watford and Welwyn Hatfield | 1.0788 |
| The councils of the districts of Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham | 1.0816 |
| The councils of the districts of Bracknell Forest, Crawley, Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Slough, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Windsor and Maidenhead and Woking | 1.1087 |
| The council of a district other than a district named, or falling within a description given, above | 1 |
| The councils of the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Enfield, Haringey, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest | 1.0742 |
| The councils of the boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames and Sutton | 1.1116 |
| The councils of the boroughs of Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster | 1.2259 |
| The Common Council of the City of London | 1.3932 |
| The Council of the Isles of Scilly | 1.5 |
| The Isle of Wight Council | 1.038 |
| The councils of the counties of Cornwall, County Durham, Northumberland and Shropshire | 1 ” |
Assumptions relating to provisional amounts
4. In Schedule 2—
(a) in paragraph 2(10)—
(i) for “that day”, substitute “1st April of the year”; and
(ii) for “that year”, substitute “the immediately preceding year”.
(b) in paragraph 2(12), for “0.986”, substitute “0.948”; and
(c) for the table in paragraph 8(1), substitute—
| “ Name or description of authority | Percentage |
|---|---|
| The council of a metropolitan district | 1.3 |
| The council of a non-metropolitan district which has the functions of a county council, the council of a county which has the functions of a district council and the Council of the Isles of Scilly | 1.1 |
| The council of a non-metropolitan district which does not have the functions of a county council | 0.7 |
| The council of an inner London borough and the Common Council of the City of London | 1.2 |
| The council of an outer London borough | 1.3 ” |
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Bob Neill
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Communities and Local Government
13th December 2010
1988 c.41 . These powers are now vested in the Welsh Ministers so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. They were previously transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999.672 ); see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Local Government Finance Act 1988. By virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32) , they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers.