Budget Engagement 2024
Results updated 22 Aug 2024
Files:
- Responses to budget engagement online survey and drop-in sessions, 1.4 MB (Office Excel 2007 XML workbook)
Overview
The City of Edinburgh Council wants to hear resident views on:
- Where we can save money;
- Where we are doing well; and
- Where we need to improve.
Your feedback and suggestions will help us to develop proposals to balance our budget. They will also help Councillors to understand your needs and priorities when they make decisions about how to spend the city's budget.
Why your views matter
Each year the Council must set a balanced budget that allows us to provide services to the people of Edinburgh, within the money we have available to spend.
Due to increasing demand for services, and higher costs, the Council will have a £143m shortfall in our budget by 2028/29. The graph below shows how our budget shortfall is expected to grow over the next four years. The Council has an annual budget of around £1bn in revenue spending, and has already saved £400m over the last decade.
To meet this shortfall, the Council must find new ways of becoming more efficient, reducing costs, or raising more money. We may have to reduce or stop providing some services. It is important that residents can influence these decisions.
Need a different language or format?
Please email the Interpretation and Translation Service at its@edinburgh.gov.uk quoting reference 24-9800.
Areas
- All Edinburgh
Audiences
- Amenity groups
- Architects/designers
- Built heritage groups
- Businesses
- Carers
- Children & Young People
- Civil and public servants
- Community councils
- Developers/investors
- Development management statutory consultees
- Development planning key agencies
- Education institutions
- Elected Members
- Employees
- External councils
- Homeless People
- Housing associations
- Jobseekers
- Landowners
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual people, Transgender people (LGBT)
- Libraries
- Licence applicants
- Licence holders
- Low income households
- Men
- Minority Ethnic groups
- Natural heritage/open space
- Neighbourhood partnerships
- Older people
- Parents/carers
- People with disabilities
- People with long term conditions
- Planning consultants
- Professional bodies
- Professionals
- Residents
- Road users
- Scottish Government departments
- Services/utilities
- Students
- Taxi Licence holders
- Teaching/Educational staff
- Transport groups
- Visitors
- Voluntary sector/volunteers
- Women
- Young people
Interests
- All interests
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