Local Government Funding Gap - Freedom of information requests

Title or Description
Local Government Funding Gap
FOI Number
2024494
Date Received
09/05/2024
Type of Request
FOI
Request or Question
1. What is your current predicted funding gap by the end of the financial year 2025/26? 2. What is your current predicted net revenue budget for the financial year 2025/26?
3. What is your current predicted cumulative funding gap by the end of the financial year 2026/27? (the total combined predicted funding gap of the financial years 2025/26 and 2026/27)
4. What is your current predicted net revenue budget for the financial year 2026/27?
Response
In response to the questions above, the figures provided below for the gap are the savings required to be delivered in each year i.e. the Council s provisional budget for these years is balanced and there is no gap if we deliver on these savings. The undernoted information has been extracted from the approved Financial Plan for 2024/25. Scottish Borders Council is not obliged to provide information if is it is reasonably obtainable through other means under S25 of FOI(S)A Otherwise Accessible. The information that you have requested is publicly available and is accessible by following the link Financial plans | Scottish Borders Council (scotborders.gov.uk)
1. 9.088m (page 7)
2. 370.769m (page 6)
3. 12.158m (page 7), for clarity this includes 2024/25, 2025/26 and 2026/27
4. 379.210m (page 6)