Council budgets 2011/12
The Council has now agreed its budget for the coming year
The budget sets out how the Council will make £109 million of savings over the next financial year, rising to £170m in 2012/13.
Although the Council anticipated a reduction in central funding and had planned to make substantial savings, after the Government's financial settlement it became clear that £60 million more savings would have to be found next year.
Overall the savings which need to be made over the next two years represent 25% of the Council's budget.
While the council has already made substantial efficiency savings over the last two years - and was planning to make £96m savings between 2010 and 2013 - the scale and speed of savings required means they can no longer be achieved through efficiencies alone.
Read Sir Richard Leese' comments on the budget cuts.
Read the report on the responses to the budget consultation.
More information on Council budgets is available on our Finance pages.
