Decision details

(Report of Director of Finance and Transformation)

The report gave details of a Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) consultation on the proposed changes to the illustrative 2015/16 Local Government Finance Settlement which had been published alongside the 2014/15 settlement.  Since the return date for responses to the consultation was 25 September 2014, agreement had been obtained from the Leader, Cabinet Member for Finance, Innovation and Property and the Chairman of the Advisory Board to the suggested response set out at Annex 1 to the report.

Attention was also drawn to the DCLG’s business rates retention scheme pooling prospectus together with an update on the position in Kent.

Following consideration by the Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Finance, Innovation and Property resolved that the response to the consultation, as previously agreed with the Leader of the Council, Cabinet Member for Finance, Innovation and Property and Chairman of the Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board, be endorsed.