Tony Reeves, chief executive of Bradford City Council, explains how today’s Comprehensive Spending Review will affect his city, including job cuts of up to 3,000 and £1bn being taken out of the local economy.

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Bradford City Council has 20,000 employees. We can expect to have 3,000 fewer by the end of this parliament.

More than half of our regeneration team is short-term staffed by the Working Neighbourhood Fund. That won’t exist from April next year, so the team will be cut in half. Our planning team will lose officers as well.

Cuts to the regional development agency, Yorkshire Forward, for major regeneration schemes are drying up.

As a council, our ability to fund big schemes will be seriously hampered, meaning projects like the relocation of the magistrates court (pictured) aren’t going to happen. This was linked to the creation of 400,000 sq ft grade A space at the heart of the city.

Overall, Bradford will lose £300-350m in government funding across the public sector, including fire, police, health, and the local authority.

Applying multiplier effect, the economic impact will be more like £1bn. This is around 15% of GDP.

It’s a lot for the private sector to cope with: can the tax take increase enough to cut the deficit? If not, the deficit will remain.

The big issue for us now is budgeting. We don’t know the timing of when the cuts will hit. If it is a big slug of 30% cuts next year, we will be forced to take short-term decision, and this will have a negative impact on property.

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