WHAT YOUR MONEY IS SPENT ON This is how we will be dividing up our £125m budget this year: (excluding spend of £86m on schools which is funded by a government grant)
Adult social care and wellbeing
Children’s social care and safeguarding
(including waste & recycling and grass cutting)
Environmental services
41%
22%
14%
Highways and transport (including highways maintenance)
Corporate and democratic care
(including libraries and community development)
4%
2%
14%
Other frontline services
Note: Debt charges and investment income: 3% Visit www.wokingham.gov.uk (search ‘medium term financial plan’ for a full breakdown)
EXECUTIVE VIEW
WHAT DO WE SPEND OUR MONEY ON?
Cllr Anthony Pollock, Executive Member for Finance, HR and Corporate Resources “We have set a budget this year that focusses on providing the services people want from us. We are proud to maintain weekly bin collections when so many councils have abandoned them and to be improving libraries rather than cutting them as others have done. We are investing in the future as we must, and I believe this budget is affordable, prudent and sustainable.”
Did you know the majority of our money is spent on statutory services? We have growing costs year-on-year because of more residents and increased demand on services.
www.wokingham.gov.uk
BUDGET 2019/20 - £125 MILLION Non-statutory services e.g. leisure, parks and open spaces, and bus subsidies Statutory services e.g. adult social care, children’s services, waste collection and disposal, and highways
19%
81%
2019/20 Council Tax information
