• Unaudited draft Statement of Accounts 2021–22^[2]
• In 2021/22 expenditure included £0.151m on staff and £0.126m on rates and utilities. The remaining costs include cleansing and waste removal, parking and transport costs and internal charges. The Council received £0.568m Income Compensation Grant from the government for the period April 2021 to June 2021 of which £0.054m related to Markets, offsetting part of the deficit of £0.142m shown above.
• Unaudited Statement of Accounts 2020–21 (updated December 2022)^[3]
• In 2020/21 expenditure included £0.289m on staff (including redundancy payments) and £0.123m on rates and utilities. The remaining costs include cleansing and waste removal, parking and transport costs and internal charges. The Council received £3.36m Income Compensation Grant from the government of which £0.202m related to Markets, offsetting the deficit of £0.337m shown above.
• Statement of Accounts 2019–20^[4]
• With the closure of all non-essential businesses and because of social distancing rules, staff from the Museums and the Charter Markets were furloughed.
• Statement of Accounts 2018–19^[5]
• Statement of Accounts 2017–18^[6]
• Statement of Accounts 2016–17^[7]
• Statement of Accounts 2015–16^[8]
• Statement of Accounts 2014–15^[9]

Markets: While the charter market activity is profitable, the market income was £151k lower than budget and work is ongoing to resolve this. The expenditure budget was overspent by £211k due to additional one-off costs during the implementation stage of the market review and an adverse variance in the second year of the Christmas Market.

• Statement of accounts 2013–14^[10]
• Statement of Accounts 2012–13^[11]