Council Tax and Services 2008/9

Please read this page which details our proposals for the budget and then Have Your Say

Leicestershire County Council spends £640m a year providing most of your local services. The main services we provide are:

Spending (excluding schools funded by direct government grant of £327m) is planned to be £314m. This is funded by:

The increase in costs we face for next year to maintain services is 5.2%. For example there is a 15% increase in the cost of dealing with waste and a 7% increase in the cost of providing social care to vulnerable adults.

We propose to increase council tax by 3.9% next year (the same increase as pensioners will receive next April).

This is lower than the increase in our costs because we are making major efficiency savings. These and other savings (e.g. increasing some charges) have also helped to provide money for improvements in high priority services.

Our financial plans also cover 2009/10 and 2010/11. These are based on a lower council tax increase of 3.5% each year. This has been made possible by planned higher efficiency savings.

After financing service improvements and deducting efficiency and other savings spending is planned to increase by 4.4% (£13.2m).

This would be met from an increase in general government grant of 5.3% (£4.7m) and an increase in our council tax of 3.9% (£8.5m).

The increase of £13.2m consists of:

       Help with file formats used on this website

Cabinet meeting agenda - 10th January 2008 (Supporting information)

We plan to keep down council tax increases, yet invest in priority services, but minimise service reductions, by making even more efficiency savings.

You can submit your comments via our online form, responses are required by 6th February 2008.