A House of Commons Library Briefing Paper on plastic waste in the UK, including statistics on plastic waste and information on UK Government and devolved Government plans and ambitions to reduce avoidable plastic waste and examples of voluntary initiatives from the plastics industry, environmental groups and retailers.
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Local Government Finance Settlement 2014/15 (878 KB, PDF)
The 2014/15 Local Government Finance Settlement was announced for consultation in a Written Ministerial Statement from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on 18 December 2013.
After a period of consultation, which ended on 15 January 2014, the settlement figures were confirmed on 5 February 2014. The Local Government Financial Settlement will be debated in the House on 12 February 2014.
In addition, an illustrative settlement for 2015/16 was also released.
Settlement Funding Assessments for local authorities in England will fall by 9.4% in 2014/15 and 13.2% in 2015/16.
Spending Power in England will fall by 3.1% in 2014/15 and 2.0% in 2015/16.
The 2014/15 settlement is the second to be announced since the introduction of the Business Rates Retention Scheme (BRRS), a new funding regime for local government providing local authorities with income that is based on the amount of non-domestic rates (business rates) collected in their area.
Documents to download
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Local Government Finance Settlement 2014/15 (878 KB, PDF)
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