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West Lothian Council bosses say budget will be squeezed tighter in face of pandemic

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“Increasingly, funding given to us by the Scottish Government, is earmarked for specific national programmes, so reducing any flexibility for innovation, and forcing the council to cut back on essential service areas.“There’s no increase to the capital budgets that councils have to spend on improvement works and projects, and following a massive shortfall in capital grant last year, the council faces another significant shortfall in grant funding for 2021/22.“There is a 0.7 per cent increase in core revenue budget which pays for the running of services.

However, each year costs increase with inflation so overall it is a real terms reduction in our core funding.”The Scottish Government announced details of their Budget Settlement for.

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