These councils are also more likely to have received levelling-up funding — but is it enough to plug the gap?
In the third and final article in our series about levelling up we take a look at the relationship between areas that won funding and those that experienced the largest fall in council budgets since 2010.
Needs-based grants from central government used to be the largest source of revenue for councils. Now, they rely far more on council tax and retained business rates levied on residential and commercial properties in their area.Jessica Studdert, deputy chief executive at think tank New Local, says that poorer areas have lost out from this because of lower property values.
The chart below shows how more deprived areas have lost out. Central grant funding - the part of their income determined by local need - now represents only around a quarter of the total, while the amount determined by local wealth is almost three times larger. In addition to the money from the Levelling-Up Fund, Thanet has received a further £26m from other central government streams such as the Towns Deal.
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