"Spending power" takes into account both the core "formula grant" which councils get from central government and other income - council tax and other grants.

BBC: Council offices

This increase was passed to local authorities through a new "Education Formula Funding Grant".

BBC: Q&A: School funding

Send Federal spending on Medicaid and SCHIP back to the states under the same finite block grant formula.

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Reform to the formula that sets the block grant Wales gets from Westminster will not be there.

BBC: Enthusiasm trickling down on devolution in Wales

Local authorities are then each given a grant which is worked out using a complex formula.

BBC: Former ministers condemn council funding bill

The other is the Barnett Formula which annually alters the amount ceded to Scotland via block grant.

BBC: Line in the sand no more

His government says it is underfunded by the Barnett formula which the Treasury uses to work out the size of the grant.

BBC: Wales politics

They have "refused to grant jurisdiction" over original Web content, and there was "no move" on the download formula.

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