FOI request (FOIR-715860568)

Funding gap

Requested Mon 19 May 2025
Responded Wed 09 July 2025

Despite 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 2026/27?

2. What is your current predicted net revenue budget for the financial year 2026/27?

3. What is your current predicted cumulative funding gap by the end of the financial year 2027/28? (the total combined predicted funding gap of the financial years 2026/27 and 2027/28)

4. What is your current predicted net revenue budget for the financial year 2027/28?

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Response

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

1. £0

2. £3,025,000

3. £822,000

4. £3,411,000