The final figures for Year 4 allocations of New Homes Bonus have now been published.
You can download the relevant spreadsheets from the CLG website or if you're a member you can log in and refer to the EHN analyses of the cumulative figures for years 1 to 4 and the total allocated for 2014-15 based on the 2012-13 CTB return:
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There are only 4 changes for numbers of empties returned to use between the provisional and final figures and all but one of these are simply filling in figures missing from the provisional dataset.
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George Osborne has made a U-turn over his plans to top-slice £400million from the New Homes Bonus in 2015-16, apparently in response to some strong lobbying from local authority leaders.
However, the £70million scheduled to be top-sliced from London authorities' New Homes Bonus is still going to be handed over to the London LEP/GLA (outside London the money was to be handed to Local Enterprise Partnerships).
The U-turn is contained in the Autumn Statement which states (para 1.230):
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