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FOI request (FOIR-612954853)
Funding Shortfall
Requested Thu 09 May 2024
Responded Fri 21 June 2024Despite routinely carrying out important and vital work to support their communities, local councils are facing significant funding challenges.
We are carrying out a Freedom of Information request to try and ascertain the scale of the funding challenge that local councils are facing in the medium-term future. Please can you answer the following questions:
1. What is your current predicted funding gap by the end of the financial year 2025/26?
2. What is your current predicted net revenue budget for the financial year 2025/26?
3. What is your current predicted cumulative funding gap by the end of the financial year 2026/27? (the total combined predicted funding gap of the financial years 2025/26 and 2026/27)
4. What is your current predicted net revenue budget for the financial year 2026/27?
Response
Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.
a) 2025/26 surplus of £695,000 is forecast.
b) Net expenditure of £14,093,000 for 2025/26
c) £199,000 combined funding gap (2025/26 = £695k surplus, 2026/27 = £894k deficit, Total £199k deficit)
d) Net expenditure of £16,122,000 for 2026/27
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