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Surrey County Council is on course to save local taxpayers £100 million inside four years by striking better deals. That sum would be enough to pay for the council’s project to tear up more than 300 miles of road most in need of improvement and rebuild many of them from scratch. Driving harder bargains saved … Continue reading
Leader David Hodge has set out Surrey County Council’s concerns about national changes to the New Homes Bonus scheme and support for an initiative for pooling business rate income.
A senior manager responsible for overseeing multi-million-pound savings since joining Surrey County Council has been appointed to a joint role with a neighbouring authority. Since arriving at Surrey County Council in 2010, Laura Langstaff has supported services to deliver £70 million of savings over the last three years in her role as deputy of the … Continue reading
Contracts worth £1.5 million have been clinched by firms from a new online initiative spearheaded by Surrey County Council. Local businesses have won 31 contracts totalling almost £1.57m just six months after the BuildSurrey website’s launch. Surrey created the site to help firms secure work as part of a pledge to ensure 60% of its … Continue reading
Merging administrative services is putting two county councils on track to save up to £500,000 a year. Surrey and East Sussex have pooled their payroll, pensions and accounts functions to reduce overheads and streamline management systems while also agreeing to share Surrey’s data centre. The initiative comes after the two councils joined forces to strike … Continue reading
Surrey County Council has saved local taxpayers nearly £13,000 every hour for a year by driving harder bargains. Tough negotiating with the likes of IT businesses, building firms and energy suppliers helped the council save £27 million in the last financial year. The sum, which beat the £25m target, equates to almost £12,980 an hour … Continue reading
Driving harder bargains on cleaning contracts will save Surrey schools almost £3 million – enough to buy 150 new minibuses. Negotiating by Surrey County Council has resulted in five-year deals being hammered out that represent a £2.9m saving on the previous contracts. That sum would be enough to pay for 150 new 17-seater minibuses to … Continue reading
Surrey County Council’s Strategic Director for Customers and Communities Yvonne Rees, who is also Mole Valley District Council’s Interim Chief Executive, has taken part in a debate organised by the Guardian about councils working together. She emphasised how all Surrey’s local authorities are working together through Surrey Future to promote economic growth.
BBC Surrey presenter Nigel Williams has interviewed Strategic Director for Change and Efficiency Julie Fisher about Surrey County Council’s plans for a trading arm to generate income that can be reinvested in services. Audio courtesy of BBC Surrey
An independent peer review by the Local Government Association has just reported its findings on Surrey County Council. The summary report concluded that the county council has taken “huge strides” in the past four years and is now in a position “to take off”. It also identified that “significant levels of savings have been achieved … Continue reading
Surrey County Council has unveiled plans to go into business in a bid to generate income that can be ploughed back into services. The Cabinet is set to discuss launching a trading arm to charge other organisations for services provided by the council. Under the proposals, all the cash made will be reinvested in improving … Continue reading
Up to 160 people a day have been registering for a scheme to help people cut the cost of heating and lighting. More than 4,000 people have now signed up to Surrrey County Council’s switch and save initiative, which uses people’s combined buying power to negotiate cheaper energy bills. Surrey’s scheme, which has been backed by … Continue reading
Surrey County Council today confirmed a council tax rise to spend on essential services now and avoid crippling the authority’s finances in the future. At a meeting of the Full Council it was agreed to increase council tax by 1.99% in April. The three videos below set out Surrey’s case for the council tax rise, … Continue reading
Surrey County Council’s Cabinet has approved a plan to increase council tax by 1.99% to spend on essential services now and avoid crippling the authority’s finances in the future. The Cabinet agreed the proposal to reject the Government’s offer of a freeze because it would lead to a financial black hole of more than £50 … Continue reading
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey has backed Surrey County Council’s scheme to help people cut the cost of their energy bills. Mr Davey’s support came as the number of people registering for the authority’s switch and save initiative topped 2,700. People can register online until 25 February by providing contact … Continue reading
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