SCHEDULE 2Elements of Rate Support Grants

PART IThe Needs Element

1

Subject to paragraph 3 below, the amount of the needs element payable for any year to a local authority shall be the aggregate of—

a

an amount arrived at by multiplying a prescribed sum by the population of the authority's area ; and

b

additional amounts determined in such manner as may be prescribed and attributable to such additional factors as may be prescribed for that year.