Appendix 4 BSD - 10.03.2026

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The Council has spent £416m with local suppliers over the past 12 months, equating to 62% of its total procurement spend, against a target of 60%. p29

The 2025/26 Business Services net revenue budget is £32.173m, and the current outturn forecast is a £0.016m overspend. p60p61

Sickness absence for 2025/26 Q1-Q3 was 7.10 days lost per full-time equivalent role, an increase of 3.2% on the same period last year. p25

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• p25The 2025/26 Q1 – Q3 sickness absence figure for the whole authority (excluding schools) is 7.10 days lost per Full Time Equivalent (FTE) role , an increase of 3.2% since the same period last year. The year end estimate for 2025/26 (based on nine month’s data) is 9.51 days per FTE, so the target of 9.10 days per FTE is predicted to be missed.
• p29The Council has spent £416m with local suppliers over the past 12 months. This equates to 62% of our total procurement spend, which meets our target of 60%. 1,280 local suppliers were used. The Procurement team continues to promote our contract opportunities to local suppliers, as well as building local supply chain opportunities into our tenders where possible. Social Value
• p60The 2025/26 Business Services net revenue budget is £32.173m. There are £1.060m planned savings in BSD this financial year (ref i) , of which £0.080m relating to the planned reduction in the cost of the Digital Postal Hub is not expected to be realised in this financial year, but the shortfall is planned to be covered within the directorate.
• p61The current outturn forecast is a £0.016m overspend (ref v) and this position assumes that all other savings are achieved.