Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Financial Services outlining spending variations.

Noted the spending variations in the Revenue Budget as at the 31^st December 2007.

The Cabinet received and noted a report by the Head of Financial Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) detailing expected variations in revenue expenditure in the current year.

In discussing the total amounts of payments written-off in the year for Council Tax and National Non Domestic Rates, Members were advised of the recent decision by the Government to introduce charges for empty properties from 1^st April 2008 and requested that a breakdown of the costs outstanding from this be included within future reports.  Whereupon, it was

RESOLVED

that the spending variations in the Revenue Budget as at the 31^st December 2007 be noted.