Financial strategies

Medium Term Financial Strategy

The Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) looks at how much money we expect to spend and how much we expect to collect as income over the next 3 years.

It considers:

  • nationally, what issues are affecting all local authority finances
  • locally, the best approach to managing our accounts and funds

We review, update and approve our MTFS together with our Capital Strategy as part of our budget process before each new financial year (1 April to 31 March).

Medium Term Financial Strategy 2024/25

Our Medium Term Financial Strategy for the financial year 2024/25 was considered at a meeting of Council on 28 February 2024: