Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the percentage change in formula grant in real terms was for each local authority between 1997-98 and 2009-10. [123700]

Brandon Lewis, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government [holding answer 18 October 2012]: Meaningful, like-for-like comparisons for individual local authorities over the period cannot be made, due to changes in the function, structure and funding of local government from 1997-98 to 2009-10.

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