Our spending

Summary of actual spend compared with the original 2010/11 budget

Children’s Services were allocated an additional £3.8 million to help them deal with government grant cuts and financial pressures resulting from the numbers of children in care and the cost of home to school transport.  All other departments achieved under spends against their budget.  Overall, service cash limited expenditure was £9.8 million lower than budgeted.

Further savings of £3.6 million were achieved in other areas, including reducing the cost of the waste management contract.