Nottingham City Council’s Executive Board has agreed extra proposals to balance its 2018/19 budget – totalling £27m of savings due to Government funding cuts. Facing the toughest budget since the…
Nottingham City Council is leading the way when it comes to generating income to help offset Government funding cuts – generating £20m a year from commercial activities. The council has…
Nottingham City Council deputy leader, Councillor Graham Chapman has welcomed news that the government has drawn back from extending the Transition Grant funding scheme for councils despite lobbying on behalf…
The Government would be rewarding incompetence by bringing back the widely-criticised and unfair Transition Grant scheme to “bail out” failing County Councils, says Nottingham’s deputy leader. Two years ago, the…
The Deputy Leader of Nottingham City Council, Councillor Graham Chapman, is urging the Government to listen to their own Conservative MPs on social care as Prime Minister Theresa May and…
Rising costs of adult social care and slashed Government funding have created a tipping point for Nottingham City Council as it aims to save another £27m for next year’s budget.…
The Chancellor should be chasing millions in uncollected tax from owners of properties registered in tax havens before he embarks on any more austerity measures in this week’s Budget, says…
The Government is set to bring back a controversial £300m funding scheme which, despite two years of repeated requests, it still refuses to reveal the distribution criteria for. The Transitional…
The City Council’s promotion for paperless Council Tax billing has been a great success, with 1477 signing up during the month long campaign to get their Council Tax statement by…
New ‘heat maps’ have graphically revealed the unequal and unfair distribution of a controversial £300million Government fund for councils in England. The Transition Funding Grant scheme was introduced by the…
