Council tax freeze set to continue in East Riding
Council tax bills from East Riding Council are set to be frozen for the third successive year.
Council leader Councillor Stephen Parnaby confirmed he intended to propose a continued freeze from next April.
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Grant: Council leader Stephen Parnaby.
"We will be accepting the grant being offered by the Government allowing us to freeze our part of the council tax for another year," he said.
"The grant does not cover it 100 per cent but we will be able to meet the shortfall from our own reserves."
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Cllr Parnaby said officials in the council's finance section were still examining details from the local government settlement announced just before Christmas by communities secretary Eric Pickles.
The settlement includes the main annual grant funding for each local authority in England and Wales.
Cllr Parnaby said: "We are facing a reduction in funding which is not good news but we are where we are.
"It will not be easy but we have demonstrated that we can deliver savings in recent years."
Comments
by democracy_now
Monday, December 31 2012, 10:56PM
“But nearly all councils across the country are freezing council tax, Parnaby is only towing the govt line, please let me know one Tory council that will be increasing council tax for 2013?”
by jezhull
Saturday, December 29 2012, 6:46PM
“They should indeed be frozen as e riding residents are paying way over the odds for a very poor service”
by PatrickNewman
Saturday, December 29 2012, 6:16PM
“Parnaby is only doing what simple simon Pickles says with temporary funding bribe but there will be a day of reckoning when the gap that is opening up will have to be covered by cuts which is of course the real agenda. Even some Tory authorities like Peterborough are increasing CT to head off a future crisis. Council Tax is a regressive tax and a freeze particularly benefits the higher earners who can still qualify for the single person discount which saves up to £650 in a large house. It is what ERYC has to do to jobs and services to meet the target that should be focused on.”
by beverleybard
Saturday, December 29 2012, 5:40PM
“Don't always agree with Stephen Parnaby but think he deserves three cheers for this - sparing the hard pressed people of the East Riding from further assaults on their purses and wallets!”
by Hormonal
Friday, December 28 2012, 11:19PM
“I sincerely hope there will be a freeze on Police funding, given the recent unacceptable hike in Police Commissioner expenditure”
by AstynomiaKats
Friday, December 28 2012, 8:57PM
“NOT TRUE LIES LIES LIES.
Council tax benefit is being cut so the poorest have to pay for the richest yet second homes discount stays.
Porki Parno strikes again”
by bevman
Friday, December 28 2012, 12:39PM
“Meeting short fall from reserves and cost savings for 3rd year! Shows how badly mismanaged it has been if such savings can be met for 3 years. Parno you're incompetent, we should have been having freezes in the past.”
by gmdavison
Friday, December 28 2012, 11:34AM
“First bit of good news”