Our budget 2024-2025

Planned Net Expenditure & Income Breakdown 2024 to 2025


Net Cost of Service	2024 to 2025 £'000	2023 to 2024 £'000
Policy and Finance Committee	1,947	2,203
Corporate Support Committee	7,847	7,678
Economy Committee	2,544	2,449
Environment Committee	10,901	10,810
Planning Policy Committee	1,094	906
Housing and Wellbeing Committee	5,785	5,937
Recharges to HRA	(1,746)	(1,526)
Total Net Cost of Services	28,372	28,457

Corporate Costs	2024 to 2025 £'000	2023 to 2024 £'000
Parish Precepts	5,530	5,301
Other Precepts & Levies	249	249
Interest and investment income	(2,260)	(1,825)
Contingency Budget	10	0
Pension deficit contributions	1,284	1,323
Total Corporate Costs	4,803	5,048
Total Net Budget Requirement	33,175	33,505

Financed By	2024 to 2025 £'000	2023 to 2024 £'000
Retained Business Rates	(8,032)	(7,626)
New Homes Bonus	(1,378)	(616)
Other Non-Ringfenced Grants	(1,080)	(1,641)
Council Tax Income: Arun	(13,451)	(12,982)
Council Tax Income: Parish Councils	(5,530)	(5,301)
Collection Fund: Deficit/(Surplus)	(148)	(152)
Total Financed By	(29,619)	(28,318)
Funded from Usable Revenue Reserves	3,556	5,187

How spending has changed

2023/24 Council Tax Requirement	£'000 18,282
Change in Establishment	1,102
Increase in Combined Cleansing Contract	485
Net increase in Homelessness Expenditure	491
District Election 2023-24	(282)
Utility prices	105
Retained Business Rates (including s31 grants)	(406)
Change in New Homes Bonus	(762)
Changes in other non ringfenced grants	745
Interest on Investments	(435)
Increase in income	(799)
Change in Reserve Contributions	(3,556)
Other net variations < £300k	4,011
2024/25 Council Tax Requirement	18,891

Band D Council Tax

	2024 to 2025	2023 to 2024
Including parishes	£294.06*	£284.96**
Excluding parishes	£208.39	£202.34

* Council Tax Requirement of £18,981,573 divided by tax base of 64,550 for 2024/25.

** Council Tax Requirement of £18,282,458 divided by tax base of 64,159 for 2023/24.

Note : Arun’s tax base represents the number of Band D equivalent dwellings in the district, adjusted for exemptions, discounts, council tax reduction and the Collection rate percentage.

Levies

	2024 to 2025	2023 to 2024
	Levy on Arun £'000	Levy on Arun £'000
Total	249	245

The above Levies are a combined total for Littlehampton Harbour Board and the Environment Agency Internal Drainage Board (River Arun).

Parish and Town Council precepts

	2024 to 2025	2024 to 2025	2024 to 2025	2023 to 2024
Parish	Precept £	Tax Base Band D Dwellings	Local Charge Band D Tax £	Precept £
Aldingbourne	156,254	1,921	81.34	151,778
Aldwick	114,424	5,316	21.52	95,000
Angmering	432,575	4,010	107.87	410,570
Arundel	194,716	1,633	119.24	187,828
Barnham and Eastergate	188,400	2,442	77.15	171,429
Bersted	154,905	3,490	44.39	143,324
Bognor Regis	999,504	7,353	135.93	1,009,819
Burpham	3,000	131	22.90	2,800
Clapham	17,820	140	127.29	14,061
Climping	19,000	449	42.32	16,760
East Preston	275,899	2,803	98.43	279,262
Felpham	116,885	4,942	23.65	109,435
Ferring	93,184	2,400	38.83	93,184
Findon	58,000	974	59.55	56,000
Ford	20,000	455	43.96	17,860
Houghton	0	53	0.00	0
Kingston	9,090	442	20.57	9,090
Littlehampton	1,510,181	10,279	146.92	1,446,520
Lyminster	9,000	182	49.45	9,500
Madehurst	0	59	0.00	0
Middleton	55,600	2,299	24.18	53,000
Pagham	80,270	2,702	29.71	78,473
Patching	4,000	121	33.06	4,000
Poling	0	92	0.00	0
Rustington	786,000	6,034	130,26	759,000
Slindon	31,745	291	109.09	23,258
South Stoke	0	31	0.00	0
Walberton	100,715	1,336	75.39	72,525
Warningcamp	550	89	6.18	0
Yapton	98,550	2,081	47.36	86,050
Total	5,530,267	64,550	85.67	5,300,526