Response 889414

Response to request for information

Reference

889414

Response date

22 June 2022

Request

1. What is your current predicted funding gap by the end of the financial year 2023/24?
2. What is your current predicted cumulative funding gap by the end of the financial year 2024/25? 
3. In reference to council funding and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions:
   1. Has your council estimated the costs of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions? Yes / No / Don't know
   2. How much does your council estimate reaching net zero will cost? (Please state amount and any associated timescale)
   3. Can your council access enough funding to be able to deliver your emission reduction ambitions? Yes / No / Don’t Know

Response

1. What is your current predicted funding gap by the end of the financial year 2023/24?
   • £846k in 22/23 and £362k in 23/24 and £100k
2. What is your current predicted cumulative funding gap by the end of the financial year 2024/25? 
   • See response to question 1
3. In reference to council funding and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions:
   1. Has your council estimated the costs of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions? Yes / No / Don't know

      • No, we have high level estimates but not for every aspect of the organisation operations particularly relating to Scope 3

   2. How much does your council estimate reaching net zero will cost? (Please state amount and any associated timescale)

      • Not Known and by 2030

   3. Can your council access enough funding to be able to deliver your emission reduction ambitions? Yes / No / Don’t Know

      • Not Known