Thus the six old-timers, for example, have agreed to accord one another's citizens the same rights as domestic investors by 2010, but will not grant outsiders equivalent treatment until 2020.
But that grant is only equivalent to about a 1% council tax rise and only lasts a year, so many forces will recoup more money by refusing the government aid and charging local taxpayers extra.
Most have taken the government grant which is worth the equivalent of a 2.5% increase in council tax and in return agreed to freeze bills for a year from April 2012.