It has to find more than £16m worth of savings over the next five months
Tom Riordan, chief executive at Leeds City Council, who spoke about the cost of living pressures.
Pay negotiations with council staff also remain ongoing, with no agreement having been reached for the current financial year, which started in April. She added: “We’ve only just put the freeze on some non-essential spend and on some recruitment, so it’s early yet to see what the impact of that will be.
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