Residents Invited To Have Say On Council’s Spending Priorities

Residents are being urged to complete an online survey which will go towards shaping the spending priorities of East Riding of Yorkshire Council.

As part of the budget process, the council must consider how it can reduce costs or deliver services in a different way and feedback from this survey will help the council prioritise funding for services.

The Government’s funding reductions in the public sector, including local authorities are set to continue until at least 2019/20.

Despite this, the council has made savings of £118million since 2010/11 although a further £76million of savings is required over the next four years.

Councillor Stephen Parnaby, OBE, leader of the council, said: “The council continues to receive significantly less Government funding per head of population than urban authorities, our neighbours in the Humber region and the average for similar authorities.

“We are facing some tough economic times ahead and the online survey is an important way for the public to let us know what they think and how they feel the council should prioritise its spending.

“The survey should take around 10 minutes of people’s time so I would urge people to take this opportunity to complete the survey and let us know their views.”

The survey can be found at www.eastriding.gov.uk/budgetsurvey and the closing date for all responses is Sunday, 6 December 2015.

* The budget event which is being held at East Riding Leisure Beverley on Thursday, 26 November is now fully booked.