Response to Budget Consultation 2020/2021 by Labour Group We fully appreciate that funding is very tight. Government funding for Local Councils has been severely cut in recent years and savings have had to be made by all Local Councils- £90m by Bracknell Forest so far. The massive changes that have…

Response to the 2019/2020 Budget by Councillor Mary Temperton, Labour. This is the eighth such response I have made and it does not get any easier. I did encourage other residents to respond to the consultation, so they too could understand the complexity of Local Government. The response of 8 is…

Response to Budget Consultation from Councillor Mary Temperton on behalf of the Labour Party. As in the past few years, the budget is dominated by the complete withdrawal of the Revenue Support grant by 2020, resulting in an 80% reduction in Government funding for Bracknell Forest. £20m needs to be…

Every Council is in a financial predicament following central government’s decision to completely withdraw the revenue support grant by 2020- leaving Bracknell Forest with a hole of £23.5m at the time of consultation- but now at £25m over the next three years, following the actual settlement. Every Council is struggling…