Engagement with Businesses
A consultation was open for businesses to have their say on the budget proposals put forward by the council for 2023/24 and beyond, from Tuesday 17 January 2023 and ran until Thursday 9 February 2023.
Engagement with Residents
This consultation with local residents closed on the 18 December 2022.
Thank you very much for completing our survey and letting us hear your views on how we can make the fairest decisions possible as we develop our budget plans.
Like all organisations across the country, the ongoing impact of increasing inflation has added significantly to the pressures on our budget. Having set a balanced budget for the next 2 years as recently as February 2022, we have seen this position change at pace with inflationary pressures impacting on the day-to-day costs of our services.
The government recently announced that it will provide us with greater flexibility in setting our levels of Council Tax. However, before any decisions are made on this we wanted to hear from you.
Results of the survey
An online survey about budget spending was open to all Hertfordshire residents from Friday 18 November 2022 and ran until Sunday 18 December 2022.
Please see below for a summary of the results of this survey:
If you are interested in further detail on how we engaged with residents, you can access this through the full report as it appeared on the agenda for the meeting of Cabinet on 16 January 2023.