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 2009-10 and 2011-12. [127157]

Brandon Lewis, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government: Individual year on year cash change components for 2010-11 and 2011-12 are available on our website at:

http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1011/chng1011.xls

http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1112/1112chngs.xls

The most recent gross domestic product deflators, which allow conversion from a cash terms series to a real term series, are available on the HM Treasury website at:

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/gdp_deflators.xls

Meaningful, like-for-like comparisons for individual local authorities cannot be made over more than one financial year owing to changes in local authority responsibility and function, as for instance with the transfer of responsibility for concessionary travel from districts to counties in 2011-12.

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