# The Major Precepting Authorities (Excessive Budget Requirements—Payments) (England) Regulations 2000, Paragraph 8: Rounding For the purposes of this Schedule the following rounding conventions will apply: (a) the following amounts shall be rounded to the nearest thousand pounds— E (paragraph 1), G (paragraph 3(2)), K (paragraph 4(2)), L (paragraph 4(3)), grant allocated under the Principal Formula (paragraph 7), each of the sums aggregated in the calculation of the amount of P (paragraph 5(3)) and hence the amount of P, in the case of the Greater London Authority each of the sums aggregated in the calculation of P1 and P2 referred to in paragraph 5(3)(a) and hence the amount of P, R (paragraph 2(2)(a)); (b) T (paragraph 5(4)) shall be rounded to the nearest whole unit; (c) amounts of C and M (paragraphs 2(2) and 5(1), shall be rounded to the nearest penny. Items P and T used in the calculation of C shall be rounded in accordance with sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above. R (which in the case of major precepting authorities other than the Greater London Authority is defined in section 44 of the 1992 Act) and which is used in the calculation of C, shall be rounded to the nearest thousand pounds; (d) where the amount to be rounded is exactly one half of the relevant unit designated in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) above for rounding purposes, the rounding shall be upwards to the next unit. TABLE A MAJOR PRECEPTING AUTHORITIES Prescribed proportion of council tax yield, guideline council taxand budget requirement in 1999–2000 and adjustment to SSA in 1999–2000 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Greater London Authority 0.155 £107.95 £2,104,822,000 Nil Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District 0.155 £17.96 £17,601,000 Nil COUNTY COUNCILS Bedfordshire 0.105 £665.80 £273,913,000 Nil Buckinghamshire 0.073 £578.90 £321,381,000 Nil Cambridgeshire 0.085 £544.11 £333,064,000 Nil Cheshire 0.097 £696.15 £480,213,000 Nil Cornwall 0.151 £565.42 £343,640,000 Nil Cumbria 0.134 £662.23 £361,266,000 Nil Derbyshire 0.129 £666.30 £499,641,000 Nil Devon 0.110 £594.62 £464,848,000 Nil Dorset 0.093 £630.98 £252,499,000 Nil Durham 0.155 £662.39 £373,659,000 Nil East Sussex 0.122 £601.45 £338,240,000 Nil Essex 0.116 £583.50 £909,632,000 £34,000 Gloucestershire 0.096 £561.33 £366,689,000 Nil Hampshire 0.082 £584.49 £771,027,000 Nil Hertfordshire 0.094 £553.26 £731,269,000 £68,000 Kent 0.120 £577.64 £966,887,000 Nil Lancashire 0.140 £703.66 £855,268,000 Nil Leicestershire 0.088 £621.87 £391,688,000 Nil Lincolnshire 0.128 £582.98 £430,333,000 Nil Norfolk 0.131 £582.83 £519,038,000 Nil North Yorkshire 0.092 £562.01 £376,531,000 Nil Northamptonshire 0.113 £564.26 £429,719,000 Nil Northumberland 0.135 £683.65 £237,385,000 Nil Nottinghamshire 0.133 £712.04 £531,652,000 Nil Oxfordshire 0.082 £563.67 £371,522,000 Nil Shropshire 0.107 £580.33 £186,456,000 Nil Somerset 0.115 £580.99 £318,589,000 Nil Staffordshire 0.107 £557.18 £530,893,000 Nil Suffolk 0.119 £567.62 £438,289,000 Nil Surrey 0.062 £564.60 £650,102,000 £128,000 Warwickshire 0.108 £622.80 £332,068,000 Nil West Sussex 0.091 £570.60 £478,883,000 Nil Wiltshire 0.082 £586.20 £270,146,000 Nil Worcestershire 0.098 £537.05 £332,248,000 Nil POLICE AUTHORITIES Avon and Somerset 0.128 £57.33 £172,296,000 £415,000 Bedfordshire 0.122 £58.36 £63,111,000 £175,000 Cambridgeshire 0.098 £50.40 £74,968,000 £159,000 Cheshire 0.117 £56.27 £111,361,000 £268,000 Cleveland 0.155 £50.93 £81,925,000 £177,000 Cumbria 0.134 £75.61 £64,305,000 £157,000 Derbyshire 0.139 £59.88 £105,226,000 £260,000 Devon and Cornwall 0.135 £50.47 £174,873,000 £412,000 Dorset 0.106 £73.79 £76,746,000 £162,000 Durham 0.155 £50.78 £81,509,000 £178,000 Essex 0.125 £65.06 £177,123,000 £7,264,000 Gloucestershire 0.096 £60.34 £64,581,000 £156,000 Greater Manchester Police 0.155 £58.79 £382,227,000 £663,000 Hampshire 0.105 £52.39 £196,197,000 £528,000 Hertfordshire 0.094 £61.89 £116,347,000 £14,614,000 Humberside 0.155 £54.82 £114,569,000 £259,000 Kent 0.122 £50.59 £183,786,000 £508,000 Lancashire 0.154 £55.81 £181,049,000 £419,000 Leicestershire 0.126 £63.96 £106,603,000 £273,000 Lincolnshire 0.128 £82.90 £70,022,000 £135,000 Merseyside Police 0.155 £74.98 £246,573,000 £429,000 Norfolk 0.131 £56.04 £85,161,000 £181,000 North Yorkshire 0.098 £50.64 £77,843,000 £184,000 Northamptonshire 0.113 £72.41 £69,968,000 £173,000 Northumbria Police 0.155 £50.79 £213,360,000 £361,000 Nottinghamshire 0.155 £56.75 £128,693,000 £277,000 South Yorkshire Police 0.155 £56.71 £173,699,000 £369,000 Staffordshire 0.127 £75.68 £121,577,000 £310,000 Suffolk 0.119 £54.74 £69,810,000 £167,000 Surrey 0.062 £66.42 £114,366,000 £21,561,000 Sussex 0.116 £53.22 £168,374,000 £389,000 Thames Valley 0.083 £53.04 £227,166,000 £585,000 Warwickshire 0.108 £64.89 £55,000,000 £144,000 West Mercia 0.111 £56.05 £115,742,000 £281,000 West Midlands Police 0.155 £51.24 £381,838,000 £887,000 West Yorkshire Police 0.155 £54.76 £289,690,000 £619,000 Wiltshire 0.088 £65.59 £68,421,000 £163,000 FIRE AUTHORITIES Greater Manchester Fire 0.155 £28.52 £86,756,000 Nil Merseyside Fire 0.155 £37.83 £60,467,000 Nil South Yorkshire Fire 0.155 £27.69 £39,766,000 Nil Tyne and Wear Fire 0.155 £30.61 £41,009,000 Nil West Midlands Fire 0.155 £26.77 £84,648,000 Nil West Yorkshire Fire 0.155 £24.38 £65,405,000 Nil TABLE B Local authority contribution factor to council tax benefit costs Column 1 Column 2 Amount of N Z Not exceeding 0.5 0.125 Exceeding 0.5 and not exceeding 1 0.25 Exceeding 1 and not exceeding 1.5 0.375 Exceeding 1.5 and not exceeding 2 0.5 Exceeding 2 and not exceeding 2.5 0.625 Exceeding 2.5 and not exceeding 3 0.75 Exceeding 3 and not exceeding 3.5 0.875 Exceeding 3.5 1 --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/214/schedule/paragraph/8 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/major-precepting-authorities-excessive-budget-requirementspayments-england-regulations-2000/schedule/paragraph-8 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.