Decision details
Draft Budget 2025 – 2026, Version Two
Decision Maker: Executive
Decision status: Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Decisions:
The purpose of the report was to provide an update on the developing budget for 2025/26 following the provisional government funding settlement on 18 December 2024.
The Leader explained that Annex F was exempt and the Executive would need to resolve to go into a private session if they wished to discuss this. An additional recommendation, which was not in the report, had been put forward by officers;
That the Executive:
· Delegate authority to the S.151 Officer, in consultation with the Executive Member for Finance and the Executive Member for Environment, to amend the Trade Waste Fees in Annex F, to ensure the service remains competitive and delivers value for money to local businesses.
Councillor Alaric Smith, Executive Member for Finance, proposed accepting the recommendations in the report and as amended. Councillor Smith explained that the Council would approve the final budget for 2025/26 on 26 February 2025. The first draft of the revenue budget for 2025/26 was presented to the Executive on 11 December 2024, this second draft had been updated for the provisional government funding settlement announced on 18 December 2024, draft fees and charges, for approval and the final Council Taxbase.
Councillor Smith highlighted changes in expenditure on staff training which was related to the Publica transition and the Extended Producer Waste payment.
The recommendations were seconded by Councillor Andy Graham, taken to a vote and unanimously agreed.
RESOLVED: That the Executive:
- Approved the draft fees and charges for 2025/26, as detailed in Annex E and F and;
- Delegated authority to the S.151 Officer, in consultation with the Executive Member for Finance and The Executive Member for Environment, to amend the Trade Waste Fees in Annex F, to ensure the service remains competitive and delivers value for money to local businesses.
And that the Executive recommended that Full Council;
- Approve the Council Tax Base shown in Annex D, calculated as £48,742.33 for the year 2025/26.
- Authorise the Director of Finance to submit the National Non-Domestic Rates Return 1 (NNDR1) to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government by the submission date of 31 January 2025.
Report author: Madhu Richards
Publication date: 16/01/2025
Date of decision: 15/01/2025
Decided at meeting: 15/01/2025 - Executive
Date comes into force if not called in: 24/01/2025
Call-in deadline date: 23/01/2025
Current call-in Count: 0
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