general grant

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meaningsofgeneralandgrant

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general
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/us
/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
an officer of very high rank, especially in ...
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grant
noun[C]
uk
/ɡrɑːnt/us
/ɡrænt/
an amount of money given especially by the government to a person or organization for a ...
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(Definition ofgeneralandgrantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thegeneralgrant, although it comes with no strings attached, operates as an effective means to control total local government expenditure.
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If specific grant programs are completely integrated into ageneralgrantprogram, then some local governments may be forced to depend solely on their own direct resources for revenue.
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Is there machinery by which this extra money can be found through thegeneralgrant?
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It is very difficult to pay extra little bits of money through thegeneralgrant.
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The present position is that rate support grant is ageneralgrant.
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Whether thegeneralgrantis right or wrong will depend on our efficiency as local authorities in handling it.
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Thegeneralgrantis calculated by taking the total amount of the existing grant and dividing by the number of pupils in the country.
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These proposals about thegeneralgrantare brought forward at a time when local authorities are in particularly difficult financial circumstances.
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But it is not brought into the calculation when thegeneralgrantis fixed.
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This is a corollary to the introduction of thegeneralgrant.
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I have no reason to believe that a local authority is given a range of choice within thegeneralgrantsubjects.
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I said that this was an additional rate revenue of £2·3 million as distinct from revenue fromgeneralgrant.
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We are giving local authorities more discretion to use their own revenues as they think best, whether from the rates or from thegeneralgrant.
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Mental health is, apparently, one of the subjects which will be covered by thisgeneralgrant.
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Thegeneralgrantwill include elements which have hitherto not been fixed on the eleven-eightieths basis.
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If local authorities see the need, they can well do it under thegeneralgrantarrangements.
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We have said again and again that the amount of thegeneralgrantwill be adjusted to take account of approved changes in teachers' salaries.
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I entirely agree that the aims of the rate deficiency grant and thegeneralgrantare different.
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It seeks to deal with three of the major fears which local government workers of both political parties still have about thegeneralgrant.
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We have been told so often that this system will be run down into decay by thegeneralgrant.
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