The Labour-run council will publish its budget proposals soon
Nottingham councillors have questioned whether the authority’s planned four-week budget consultation over the Christmas period could expose it to a legal challenge. Labour-run Nottingham City Council will soon publish its budget proposals for the financial year beginning April 2025.
Cllr Neghat Khan , the leader of the council, said she would commit to an earlier budget consultation period next year. However she said the budget proposals had been “pushed back and back” due to changes in the council’s leadership and executive, as well as the resignation of Ross Brown, the authority’s corporate director for finance and Section 151 officer.
Concerns were also raised over whether the consultation would breach the four ‘Gunning Principles’. These legal principles define that a consultation is only legitimate when certain conditions are met, including that a final decision has not been made or predetermined, that sufficient information is made accessible and easily interpretable, that there is adequate time to take part; and that ‘conscientious consideration’ must be given to responses before a decision is made.
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