How did your councillor vote on the budget for 25/26?

The voting results from yesterday's Powys County Council meeting reveal who voted for setting the budget for 24/25, which includes a 8.9% council tax increase and who voted against.

As we reported yesterday, Powys County councillors met to discuss and debate their budget for the upcoming year.

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Next year’s council budget is set to go up to of £365.777 million after the council were told they would receive a 3.2 per cent increase in funding from the Welsh Government just before Christmas. However due to a deal done yesterday by the Liberal Democrats, this funding is increasing to 3.8%.

To balance next year’s budget a funding gap of £24.151 million needs to be plugged. Of that figure £12.287 million of this will be addressed by the council in a mixture of cuts, savings, and income generation. The Council Tax increase is supposed to cover the remaining amount.

The voting results have now been published, showing which way each county councillor voted. The county councillors for Newtown are shown below.

Recommendation 2 - Set Council Tax at 8.9%

Cllr Adam Kennerly

Newtown Llanllwchaiarn North
Liberal Democrat

  For

Cllr Peter Lewington

Newtown Llanllwchaiarn West
Conservative

  Against

Cllr Joy Jones

Newtown East
Independent

  Against

Cllr David Selby

Newtown Central
Liberal Democrat

  For

Cllr Kelly Healy

Newtown Central
Liberal Democrat

  For

Councillors will meet again soon to formally set the rate of council tax, taking into account the precepts added by the Police & Crime Commissioner and Town Council.