{"id":630115,"date":"2025-12-13T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/630115\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:08:13","slug":"worcestershire-county-council-plans-to-raise-tax-by-more-than-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/630115\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcestershire County Council plans to raise tax by more than 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cabinet papers show that the council will also ask the government for exceptional financial support for a second year running, with a government decision expected by 20 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/exceptional-financial-support-for-local-authorities-for-2025-26\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">awarded 30 councils exceptional financial support, external<\/a>, almost 10% of principal local authorities in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government also gave six councils permission to increase council tax above 5%, setting limits of between 7.5% and 10%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Support worth \u00a333.6m will be needed to help Worcestershire County Council break even in the 2025-26 financial year, according to the cabinet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said savings across the authority and a reduction in borrowing had helped offset an \u00a311.7m overspend across council services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cabinet papers show that the council will also ask the government for exceptional financial support for a second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-630115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115712183854985468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}