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using blends - no-one expressed dissatisfaction with a potential
income system.
Of the fifteen who were planning a change, thirteen proposed
moving to potential income, one to an 'own' version and one to actual
income (from an 'own' version of actual, not from potential). The
trend of preference is clearly for potential income rather than
actual income to be the basis on which diocesan share is allocated,
but the means whereby that potential basis is defined varies from
diocese to diocese.
5.3
The Catton Paper Considered in Detail
Catton makes a review of systems being used by several of the
dioceses of which the following are some of the more interesting
points :
5.3.1
Use of deaneries
Twenty-nine of the dioceses (including Bradford) use the
deaneries as a principal means of allocating share - suggesting
either that this level of administration is more sensitive to
parochial variances, or that parishes have more confidence in their
local deanery than in the perhaps more remote diocesan office.
5.3.2
Flat rate contributions
Some dioceses incorporate a flat rate contribution and then
supplement with a variable addition. Winchester for example took
(in 1976) £300 per full-time person working in the parish and then
25 per cent of the remaining gross parochial income. In 1978 the
flat rate will be £450.
5.3.3
Fixed percentage
Others take a fixed percentage of parochial income. In Blackburn
this is fifteen per cent - a figure which, since it was first adopted
