There were concerns it would require cuts
The £3.2 million financial gap Nottingham City Council said it still faced next year could be plugged by extra Government funding rather than more cuts. But the authority's outgoing finance director said next year's budget would still be the most challenging one in more than 20 years.
It comes after the authority recently released proposals to fill a financial gap of £32 million next year. Despite planning savings with measures including the axing of 110 jobs and a 5% council tax increase, Nottingham City Council said it still needed to find another £3.2 million to balance its books from April.But Clive Heaphy, the council's outgoing Corporate Director of Finance, said the Government's recent funding offer had been positive for Nottingham.
"When the provisional settlement came out in the run up to Christmas, the whole sector was running around like a certain type of fly trying to understand what that really meant. Essentially, the spending power has gone up by 9.9% for Nottingham, which is slightly below the core city average but slightly above the England average so that is a relatively good settlement."
Figures from both councils say that in terms of cuts to spending since 2015, Ashfield is the country's second worst-affected council, whilst Gedling is fifth worst affected. Councillor David Martin, the Finance Spokesperson for the Ashfield Independents, which runs Ashfield District Council, said the offer "made a complete mockery of any Tory promise to level up."
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