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Cabinet. The Cabinet makes most of the council's decisions.
Council housing rent rise and 2024/25 budgets
Cabinet adopted the Housing Revenue Account budget for 2024/25 and the Housing Stock Business Plan. It agreed to raise council rents by 6.7%, to an average weekly rent of £109.34 from 1 April 2024. Cabinet also noted an additional report on the factors considered in setting the rent, and confirmed it had read the Well-being Impact Assessment.
Governance and Audit Committee
UPDATE ON 2025/26 REVENUE BUDGET SETTING
RESOLVED that the Governance and Audit provided no further feedback to Cabinet before the 2025/26 budget was set.
Performance Scrutiny Committee. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
2025/26 revenue budget: Welsh Government settlement and pressures
The committee agreed to recommend to Cabinet, the senior councillors who take most council decisions, that it backs the measures taken so far to set a balanced 2025/26 budget. It also asked that future budget plans identify the expected costs of the council's aim to become net carbon zero by 2030.
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.