Funding Gap

RFI-2025-0742
Monday, 19 May 2025

Request

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?

Response

Please visit our website and view the Medium Term Financial Plan 25-26
This should answer all of your questions.