FOI request (FOIR-574614974)

Local government finance

Requested Fri 05 January 2024
Responded Fri 19 January 2024

As a Freedom of Information request, can you please provide me with the following information:

1. How much deficit/pressure/overspend have you identified in your Medium Term Financial Strategy in (a) 2024-25 (b) 2025-26 and (c) 2026-27.

Please do not provide me with a figure for 2023-24 or any year before that.

2. Please provide (a) a link to your latest Medium Term Financial Strategy and (b) the page number(s) where the answer to question 1 can be found.

If you do not provide a page number, I will request an Internal Review on the ground that you have misinterpreted what constitutes 'accessible information'. I am not a finance expert, so without clear signposting to the data I will not be able to find it.

Response

1. The current forecast for the Medium Term Financial Strategy shows that there is a cumulative deficit over the period of £13.6m. This includes £4.3m in the current financial year.

2a. https://hastings.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s51756/Appendix%201%20-%20MTFS%202024-25%20-%202026-27%20v1.1.pdf

2b. Paragraph 46 on Pages 12 - 13 should give you the answer to Q1 against (a) 2024-25 (b) 2025-26 and (c) 2026-27.