Our 2012/13 budget

Our spending plans for the next financial year include a freeze in Council Tax and investing millions into protecting the county’s most vulnerable residents.

Our gross budget for 2012/13 is £2.2 billion. Our net expenditure is £1.78 billion, with the difference being service income from clients and reimbursements from other public bodies.

Our budget is split into three areas:

• Direct services to the public
  £1.53 billion
• Financing items
  £134.5 million
• Management, support services and overheads
  £112.9 million

All the figures on our budget pages represent the planned net expenditure of the council in providing services i.e. total spending less any income from clients or reimbursements from other public bodies.

This presentation of figures as net expenditure gives the simplest measure of the cost of our services to taxpayers through Council Tax, business rates or national taxation.

You can find more information in our Budget Book.and Medium Term Financial Plan.