FOI release

Council Funding Gap 2027/28

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Case reference FOI2026/00780

Received 27 March 2026

Published 16 April 2026

Request

Despite routinely carrying out important and vital work to support their communities, local councils are facing significant funding challenges.

We are carrying out a Freedom of Information request to try and ascertain the scale of the funding challenge that local councils are facing in the medium-term future. Please can you answer the following questions:

1. What is your current predicted funding gap by the end of the financial year 2027/28?

2. What is your current predicted net revenue budget for the financial year 2027/28?

3. What is your current predicted cumulative funding gap by the end of the financial year 2028/29 (the total combined predicted funding gap of the financial years 2027/28 and 2028/29)?

4. What is your current predicted net revenue budget for the financial year 2028/29?

Response

Despite routinely carrying out important and vital work to support their communities, local councils are facing significant funding challenges.

We are carrying out a Freedom of Information request to try and ascertain the scale of the funding challenge that local councils are facing in the medium-term future. Please can you answer the following questions:

1.      What is your current predicted funding gap by the end of the financial year 2027/28?

2.    What is your current predicted net revenue budget for the financial year 2027/28?

3.      What is your current predicted cumulative funding gap by the end of the financial year 2028/29 (the total combined predicted funding gap of the financial years 2027/28 and 2028/29)?

4.      What is your current predicted net revenue budget for the financial year 2028/29?

 

Answer: The information for Q1-Q4 is publically available on our council website and can be viewed via the following link:

 

https://councillors.herefordshire.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=291&MId=9731&Ver=4

 

Please go to Item 47 and see Table 1 on page 4 of “Appendix A_Medium Term Financial Strategy”.

         

As such we consider this information to be exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 because it is reasonably accessible to you via other means. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.

 

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