Decision - Targeted Budget Management (TBM) 2025/26 Month 9 (December)
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Targeted Budget Management (TBM) 2025/26 Month 9 (December)
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
This report presents the 2025-26 in-year
financial performance to Month 9 (December) for noting by Cabinet
and seeks approval for any capital variations, reprofiling,
exception measures or new reserves.
Decision:
1) Cabinet notes the forecast risk position for the General Fund, which indicates a potential forecast overspend risk of £4.861m.
2) Cabinet notes the forecast overspend risk for the separate Housing Revenue Account (HRA), which is an overspend of £0.846m.
3) Cabinet notes the forecast overspend risk for the ring-fenced Dedicated Schools Grant, which is an overspend of £2.388m.
4) Cabinet approves deferring the planned reserve repayment of £1.125m in 2025/26 (paragraphs 4.10 and 7.8)
5) Cabinet approves the release of unrequired Reserves and Provisions of £1.109m (paragraphs 4.10 and 7.9)
6) Cabinet notes the forecast position on the Capital Programme which is an underspend variance of £7.714m.
7) Cabinet approves the capital budget variations and re-profiling requests set out in Appendix 6.
8) Cabinet approves the new capital schemes requested in Appendix 7.
9) Cabinet notes the Treasury Management update as set out in Appendix 8 and summarised in paragraph 8.
Report author: James Hengeveld
Publication date: 13/02/2026
Date of decision: 12/02/2026
Decided at meeting: 12/02/2026 - Cabinet
Effective from: 21/02/2026
Accompanying Documents:
- Targeted Budget Management (TBM) 2025/26 Month 9 (December)
PDF 460 KB View as HTML (1) 182 KB - Appendix 1: Financial Dashboard Summary
PDF 396 KB View as HTML (2) 6 KB - Appendix 2: Revenue Budget Movement Since Month 7
PDF 309 KB View as HTML (3) 83 KB - Appendix 3: Revenue Budget RAG Rating
PDF 321 KB View as HTML (4) 120 KB - Appendix 4: Revenue Budget Performance
PDF 540 KB View as HTML (5) 376 KB - Appendix 5: Summary of 2025/26 Savings Progress
PDF 114 KB View as HTML (6) 41 KB - Appendix 6: Capital Programme Performance
PDF 309 KB View as HTML (7) 187 KB - Appendix 7: New Capital Schemes
PDF 270 KB View as HTML (8) 98 KB - Appendix 8: Treasury Management Update
PDF 252 KB View as HTML (9) 50 KB
