Cabinet. The Cabinet makes most of the council's decisions.
Budget timetable for 2025/26 (Business Planning Framework)
Cabinet approved the timetable and process for setting the 2025/26 budget. It noted the scale of the possible funding gap, while accepting that financial planning remains extremely difficult.
Finance and Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
Business Planning Framework for the 2026/27 budget
The committee recommended to Cabinet that, subject to a public consultation being carried out, the timetable and process for the Business Planning Framework be approved. It also recommended that Cabinet note the scale of the potential funding gap for 2026/27.
Cabinet. The Cabinet makes most of the council's decisions.
Business Planning Framework and budget timetable for 2026/27
Cabinet approved the timetable and process for the 2026/27 budget, subject to a public consultation being held. It noted the scale of the potential funding gap for 2026/27, while accepting that financial planning is extremely difficult.
Items are linked when their titles share most of their words and they fall within 18 months of each other. Councils don't number reports across meetings, so a few links may be wrong, and a step may be missing if its title changed a lot. Each step links to the meeting, where the council's own papers are.