As a condition of the 2024/25 Local Government Finance Settlement, all local authorities are required by Government to publish productivity plans by 19 July 2024.

The plans cover a number of themes, including:

• How we have transformed the way we design and deliver services and what more we intend to do to make better use of resources.
• How we plan to take advantage of technology and make better use of data to improve decision making, service design and use of resources.
• Our plans to reduce wasteful spend within our organisation and systems (use of agency, consultants, Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) roles, shared services).
• Barriers to productivity and what government, or the market, could do to help.

The council’s plan, which was endorsed by Executive on 9 July 2024, is available below:

• Exeter City Council Productivity Plan
• Context and background to Exeter City Council Productivity Plan