Councils are able to spend this additional funding from the Local Authority Business Growth Incentives scheme (LABGI) as they see fit according to local priorities. It follows a consultation on provisional allocations announced in April.
The good progress that councils have made in encouraging new business growth means we have been able to confirm payments for the third year of this special three year scheme.
Breakdown of finance by local authority:
Cheshire
Congleton £552,528
Ellesmere Port and Neston £158,032
Macclesfield £444,814
Chester £452,424
Crewe and Nantwich £587,970
Halton £5,556
Vale Royal £475,016
Cumbria
South Lakeland £410,697
Barrow-in-Furmess £12,611
Copeland £141,825
Carlisle £531,566
Eden £55,756
Lancashire
Blackburn with Darwen £1,654,137
Blackpool £600,33 8 Burnley £172,775
Chorley £117,323
Fylde £355,821
Hyndburn £37,690
Lancaster £930,538
Pendle £237,930
Ribble Valley £93,824
Rossendale £372,954
South Ribble £292,371
West Lancashire £470,824
Wyre £350,442
Greater Manchester
Bolton £1,203,472
Bury £765,143
Manchester £8,876,044
Oldham £822,053
Rochdale £307,826
Salford £635,432
Stockport £2,387,201
Tameside £1,761,596
Wigan £1,484,801
Merseyside
Knowsley £583,361
Liverpool £2,093,952
Sefton £284,532
St Helens £674,875
Wirral £1,340,940
County Councils
Cheshire £1,497,809
Cumbria £810,153
Lancashire £1,915,679
Total £37,352,393
Allocations of payments announced today are available at: http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/labgi/seconddtmn0708.pdf.