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Dear Peter Hall

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your request for information received on 3rd March. We have
considered your request and enclose the following information:

Please can you tell me how much money the council has in its reserves at
the moment? Can you also please tell me how much money has been added to
the reserves in each of the last three financial years?

The last audited figures are as at the 31 March 2021. As at the 31 March
2021 the Authority had £180.059m in Usable Reserves. The table below
summarises the movement in reserves over the last three years

Usable £000
Reserves  
31.3.2018 -109,798  
31.3.2019 -118,523 -8,725
31.3.2020 -139,425 -20,902
31.3.2021 -180,056 -40,631

Detailed figures on the movements on the Authority’s reserves are
published as notes to the Statement of Accounts which is publicly
available at [1]Caerphilly - Caerphilly County Borough.

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Yours sincerely

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Freedom of Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations
2004

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Information Commissioner’s Office –
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Unit 2nd Floor
Caerphilly county borough council, Churchill House
Penallta House Churchill Way
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Hengoed. CF82 7PG CF10 2HH

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