{"id":344504,"date":"2025-12-31T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344504\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:45:10","slug":"berkshire-council-neighbours-mixed-fortunes-in-funding-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344504\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire council neighbours’ mixed fortunes in funding change"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fair Funding Review 2.0, external<\/a> reforms were introduced to benefit deprived areas.<\/p>\n

In November, Local Government Minister Alison McGovern said: “Poorer local authorities that have been unable to generate as much funding through local tax will finally receive the funding they deserve.”<\/p>\n

She said CSP – a combination of business rates, council tax revenue and government grants – would rise in annual increments for the most deprived authorities.<\/p>\n

Slough’s CSP increase of 47% by 2028\/9 is one of the highest in England, according to the finance settlement published in December.<\/p>\n

On Facebook, the town’s Labour MP Tan Dhesi said it would ensure residents “receive the best possible local services”.<\/p>\n

Slough’s Revenue Support Grant will be \u00a357m by 2028\/9, according to the provisional figures.<\/p>\n

However, nearly all of Windsor and Maidenhead’s \u00a3147m CSP could come from council tax in four years’ time, the figures show.<\/p>\n

The authority’s council tax requirement is given as \u00a3142m, while its RSG is just \u00a32m.<\/p>\n

The Royal Borough, which has historically had a low council tax, is one of six councils being allowed to increase the rate by more than the 5% ceiling next year.<\/p>\n

Previously, councillor Lynne Jones, in charge of finance, said: “It’s already clear that RBWM is in a select group of councils that are worst hit by the changes to how government grant is distributed – with much of the grant funding we currently receive being redistributed to other areas.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fair Funding Review 2.0, external reforms were introduced to benefit deprived areas. In November, Local Government Minister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-344504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}