Decision details

To provide Cabinet with an overview of the provisional local government settlement.

Relevant Overview and Scrutiny Committee: Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee

251/2008 The Cabinet noted the provisional settlement as an essential part of the budget setting process for 2009/2010 and instructed officers to make representations to central government with regard to the level of settlement and the method by which it is calculated.

These provisional levels of grant form a fundamental component of the 2009/2010 budget, and their announcement is a further stage in the process of preparing a balanced budget.