{"id":65037,"date":"2024-12-19T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/?p=65037"},"modified":"2024-12-19T13:32:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:32:17","slug":"council-set-to-lose-10-million-from-2025-26-grant-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/council-set-to-lose-10-million-from-2025-26-grant-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Council set to lose \u00a310 million from 2025\/26 grant settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s been confirmed that Devon County Council will suffer a \u00a310 million hit to its budget next year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month the Government announced that it was abolishing the Rural Services Delivery Grant and wrapping it up into a new Recovery Grant that will be targeted to councils in areas with the highest deprivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rural services grant provided \u00a3110 million nationally to support people in rural communities. This year we received a big chunk of that money \u2013\u00a0\u00a310.1million \u2013 with another \u00a34million coming to district councils and the fire service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Government has now announced its grant settlement to Devon for the 2025\/26 financial year and confirmed that we would not get any cash at all from the new deprivation Recovery Grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, we will see 2.05 per cent more grant funding from the Government.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Devon County Council leader, James McInnes, said:<\/p><\/div>\r\n \t\t

\u201cIt\u2019s a real disappointment that we won\u2019t be getting any mitigation for the loss of this \u00a310.1 million grant.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we are facing an immediate need to make further savings in our spending to offset the loss of this grant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won\u2019t finally set our budget for 2025\/26 until next February but up to now we\u2019d been on track to produce a balanced budget.\u00a0 But we are now having to examine every area of spending to make even more savings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know services cost much more to provide in rural communities because of their sparse nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur bill for getting children to school is one of the highest in the country \u2013 particularly in the secondary sector where students can live miles away from their nearest school or college.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt costs more to provide social care for our elderly and vulnerable residents because of the increased costs of carers getting from one rural village to the next rather than looking after people who live in the same street or neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we have one of the biggest road networks in the country to maintain and repair.<\/p>\n

\u201cResponding to last minute savings like this is never an efficient, effective or economic way of spending the money we raise from council taxpayers instead of our usual prudent planning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t<\/blockquote>\r\n

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\r\n Councillor James McInnes, Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Policy, Corporate and Asset Management<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n <\/figure>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n <\/div>\n\n\n

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