Public Performance Reporting
Finance
- Each financial year, we set a revenue budget to fund provision of Council services
and those of the Fire & Rescue and Police services. For April 2011 to March 2011,
a budget of £269.2 million was agreed.
- The level of Council Tax required to help fund this spending remained unchanged
at £1,154 for a Band D property – just above the Scottish average of £1,149.
- During 2009/10, we collected 94.8% of Council Tax due that year (up slightly from
94.7% the year before). This compares favourably with East and North Ayrshire Councils,
who collected 94.1% and 93.8% respectively. We continue to recover all Council Tax
owed from earlier years.
- We aim to pay Council Tax Benefits and Housing Benefits speedily and correctly.
In 2009/10, we processed new benefit claims on average within 21 days and changes
of circumstances claims on average within 11 days. We maintained the level of accuracy
for such payments being correctly determined at 97%.
- The main areas of spending
within this budget are:
|
Area
|
Cost
|
Percentage
|
|
Children & Community
|
£169.9m
|
63.1%
|
|
Development & Environment
|
£39.5m
|
14.7%
|
|
Police & Fire
|
£23.5m
|
8.7%
|
|
Corporate Services
|
£14.8m
|
5.5%
|
|
Cost of borrowing
|
£12.7m
|
4.7%
|
|
Chief Executive’s
|
£3.4m
|
1.3%
|
|
Other services
|
£3.4m
|
1.3%
|
|
Transport subsidies & concessionary fares
|
£2.0m
|
0.7%
|
|
Total
|
£269.2m
|
100.0%
|
- This budget is 0.64% more than that of 2009/10.
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