{"id":35056,"date":"2019-03-12T13:47:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=35056"},"modified":"2019-03-12T13:47:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T13:47:26","slug":"vale-budget-passes-despite-large-tory-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/03\/12\/vale-budget-passes-despite-large-tory-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale budget passes despite large Tory rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_33858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33858\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-33858 size-blog-gallery-second\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/glamorgan-offices-530x358.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"358\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33858 size-blog-gallery-second\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/glamorgan-offices-530x358.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"358\" \/><\/noscript> Vale of Glamorgan Civic Offices<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCONSERVATIVE-LED Vale of Glamorgan Council passed their budget despite a large Tory rebellion.<br \/>\nIn total, 11 Conservatives abstained on the budget vote. While 10 were backbench councillors, the Cabinet Member for Social Care, Health and Leisure Gordon Kemp also refused to support the measures.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nUltimately, the council\u2019s \u00a3226.098m 2019\/20 budget was passed with support from the 14 Labour councillors who voted it down the previous week.<br \/>\nLeader of the Labour group in the Vale, Coun Neil Moore said in a statement: \u201cWe have agreed these reasonable priorities, because it would be irresponsibility not to agree a budget and by doing so I and my Labour colleagues will ensure that the council\u2019s budget will be agreed.\u201d<br \/>\nTo get their support, the Conservative cabinet had to give in to many of Labour\u2019s original demands.<br \/>\nThis includes financially backing the 95a\/b and X91 bus route, scrapping proposed on-street parking charges and funding to upgrade Victorian and older schools within the Vale.<br \/>\nThe widespread Conservative opposition to their own budget signals a power shift in the Vale, as the Conservative cabinet relied on Labour rather than its own councillors to pass their proposals.<br \/>\nMany Conservatives were angered by the decision of the cabinet to close Llancarfan Primary School, despite former Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies being elected with a mandate to save it.<br \/>\nAs the votes were cast and Tory abstentions piled up, Plaid Cymru\u2019s Coun Ian Johnson shouted: \u201cIs this a coup leader?\u201d<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33981\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-blog-gallery-second wp-image-33981\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/john-thomas-530x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"358\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-blog-gallery-second wp-image-33981\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/john-thomas-530x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"358\" \/><\/noscript> Vale of Glamorgan Council leader John Thomas<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAt the meeting, Council Leader John Thomas said: \u201cWe have set a budget that will enable us to continue to deliver services befitting of the highest performing local authority in Wales.<br \/>\n\u201cDemand for these services, especially education and social care, continue to rise along with the cost of delivering them.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the vote that followed the budget, the council also approved a 4.9 per cent hike in Council Tax to meet these spending requirements.<br \/>\nAs he stood up to vote, Coun Gordon Kemp said: &#8220;The budget has been set and we must now fund it.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis means that the final rate of tax for Band D properties in Barry will be \u00a31560.44, including the police, social care and Barry Town Council precepts.<br \/>\nIn the next financial year, Vale of Glamorgan Council have to make \u00a33.7m in cuts due to rising social care costs and a \u00a31.1m fall in funding from the Welsh Government.<br \/>\nThis comes on top of \u00a355m in savings the Vale has had to make since 2010.<br \/>\nIn a survey of 1,000 Vale residents conducted by the council, 86 per cent of respondents did not know the scale of cuts facing the council.<br \/>\nHowever, when asked to prioritise how the council should meet the financial challenge, raising council tax was the most popular option \u2013 with a reduction in services being the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONSERVATIVE-LED Vale of Glamorgan Council passed their budget despite a large Tory rebellion. In total, 11 Conservatives abstained on the budget vote. While 10 were backbench councillors, the Cabinet Member for Social Care, Health and Leisure Gordon Kemp also refused to support the measures. &nbsp; Ultimately, the council\u2019s \u00a3226.098m 2019\/20 budget was passed with support from the 14 Labour councillors who voted it down the previous week. Leader of the Labour group in the Vale, Coun Neil Moore said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":33858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,3],"tags":[144,929,132,498,6573,6574,427],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-35056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barry","category-longer-reads","category-news","tag-barry","tag-budget","tag-council","tag-council-tax","tag-llancarfan","tag-rebellion","tag-vale-of-glamorgan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vale budget passes despite large Tory rebellion - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/03\/12\/vale-budget-passes-despite-large-tory-rebellion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vale budget passes despite large Tory rebellion - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CONSERVATIVE-LED Vale of Glamorgan Council passed their budget despite a large Tory rebellion. 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