Control budgets
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The Finance department is responsible for overseeing the technical and financial accounting arrangements for the council including monitoring the council's collection of income such as:
- council tax
- managing the council's investment activities
- ensuring the council's accounts are properly closed and the preparation of the statutory Statement of Accounts and Annual Reports
- lobbying the government on the way it works out the money it gives to the council for services
Documents
You can view the documents for previous years' budgets below.
- Control Budget 2024/25 (PDF) [415KB]
- Control budget 2021/22 (PDF) [746KB]
- Control budget 2020/21 (PDF) [630KB]
- Control budget 2019/20 (PDF) [621KB]
- Control budget 2018/19 (PDF) [547KB]
- Control budget 2017/18 (PDF) [566KB]
- Control budget 2016/17 (PDF) [679KB]
- Control budget 2015/16 (PDF) [608KB]
- Control budget 2014/15 (PDF) [874KB]