Corporate Core services
The cost of running our Council and all the services which support our residents, and which encourage the growing economic success of our city, will amount to £69.960million in 2020/21. In spite of funding growing pressures, especially on children’s legal services, the Coroner’s office, IT systems and procurement, we have made a net saving of £0.577milion in 2020/21 on staffing costs, IT licenses, and closer integration and improvements in processes.
Our budget for 2020/21 of £69.96m includes:
- £4.103m for customer services
- £6.455m on legal services
- £1.064m on elections
- £2.297m for the Coroner and registering births, deaths and marriages
- £13.549m on computing and information technology
- £3.002m on communications
- £1.379m buying goods, equipment and services and managing contracts
- £5.424m on human resources, staff development, managing pay and pensions, staff records and payments
- £16.69m on financial management, collecting money and administering benefits, auditing, financial and data security and commercial governance
- £15.027m on performance research and intelligence, reforming and innovation in services, research, policy partnership and culture.
- £2.173m on our executive and corporate services, offices and functions
We receive income of £1.209m from design fees in the development of our capital programme, on street pay and display parking and bus lanes.
See the full Corporate Core budget report