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Finance and Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
Revenue budget 2024/25, quarter two monitoring
The committee recommended to Cabinet that the latest financial assessment be noted. It also recommended that budget holders be told to pause and slow spending that can be deferred without unduly affecting services.
Cabinet. The Cabinet makes most of the council's decisions.
Revenue budget: second-quarter monitoring
Cabinet noted the latest estimate of the budget position for 2024/25. It also approved an instruction for budget holders to pause and slow spending that can be deferred without unduly affecting services.
Finance and Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
Day-to-day (revenue) budget 2025/26: quarter two monitoring
Scrutiny chairs and vice-chairs will consider adding reports on reserves, council tax arrears and school balances to the forward work programme, the committee's list of planned reports. The committee recommended to Cabinet that future revenue reports give clearer, more consistent information on school spending, financial pressures and reserves. It recommended that Cabinet note the 2025/26 budget position, approve the virements (budget transfers between services) in Appendix 1, and approve a net transfer of £0.659m from earmarked reserves (money set aside for specific purposes) to general balances. It also recommended that Cabinet consider whether earmarked reserves should stay for their intended purpose or be re-prioritised.
Cabinet. The Cabinet makes most of the council's decisions.
Revenue budget: projected shortfall and reserve transfers
Cabinet approved the budget transfers between services (virements) in Appendix 1 and a transfer of £0.659m from earmarked reserves (money set aside for named purposes) to the council's general reserve. It noted the latest budget position for 2025/26 and agreed that the level and purpose of the reserves are appropriate and that they stay for their intended purpose. It also agreed that future revenue reports should give clearer and more consistent information on school spending, financial pressures and reserves.
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.