Decision details

(Report of Director of Finance and Transformation)

The report provided an overview of a Department for Communities and Local Government consultation paper on a range of technical issues concerning the 2017/18 local government finance settlement together with a proposed response.  The key points included reconfirmation of the Government’s multi-year settlement offer, proposed council tax referendum principles and the approach to business rates revaluation adjustment.

The Cabinet resolved that

The proposed response to the Technical Consultation Paper on the 2017/18 Local Government Finance Settlement, as set out at Annex 1 to the report, be endorsed and approved.