Proposed changes to concessionary travel
Nottingham City Council is set to cut £33.6m from its budget next year to meet the reductions imposed by Government.
In its settlement for Nottingham City Council for 2011/12, the Government said last month that there would be a cut of 8.44% next year. However, because of changes to the way the settlement was presented, and taking into account in-year cuts imposed by the Government in its Emergency Budget in June, the real cut in the council’s funding from Government is £60m.
This means Nottingham is among the hardest hit by the Government cuts.
In its budget-setting process, the council has had to make difficult decisions about changing, reducing or stopping some services altogether.
One of the proposals for reducing these costs is to make changes to the discretionary element of the concessionary travel scheme. Our current proposals for these changes are set out below: