Our council tax charges

Statement

The Secretary of State made an offer to adult social care authorities. (“Adult social care authorities” are local authorities which have functions under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014, namely county councils in England, district councils for an area in England for which there is no county council, London borough councils, the Common Council of the City of London and the Council of the Isles of Scilly.)

The offer was the option of an adult social care authority being able to charge an additional “precept” on its council tax without holding a referendum, to assist the authority in meeting its expenditure on adult social care from the financial year 2016-17. It was originally made in respect of the financial years up to and including 2019-20. If the Secretary of State chooses to renew this offer in respect of a particular financial year, this is subject to the approval of the House of Commons.

The offer was renewed in 2020-21 (up to 2%), in 2021-22 (up to 3%), in 2022-23 (up to 4% minus the percentage increase in the precept that was applied in 2021-22) and in 2023-24 (up to 2%).

We have increased council tax for 2023/24 by a total of 4.99%, 2% of which is to be spent on Adult Social Care.

This table shows the city council's charges for 2022/23 and 2023/24 and how the percentage increases have been worked out.