Nottinghamshire County Council

Total budget: £473.2m

Funding gap: £12.6m

Major cost pressures caring for people with learning disabilities, older people and energy costs. Efficiency savings amount to £4.8m, it will use £3.7m of reserves and it has attracted an additional £3.3m in funding.

Gedling Borough Council

Total budget: £16m

Funding gap: £1.5m

Rising energy costs, reduced gains on investments due to falling interest rates and a fall in income from leisure centres and fees. It has reduced the funding gap to £900,000 but councillors must consider savings such as introducing car parking charges and cutting spending on services, including leisure.

Rushcliffe Borough Council

Total budget: £12.4m.

Funding gap: £1.2m

Shortfall due to rising energy prices, cuts in interest rates and increased service costs. Councillors held workshops to discuss where further savings. could be made.

Broxtowe Borough Council

No figures provided on budget position for next year. In a statement Coun Michael Rich, leader of the council, said: "Yes there is a deficit and councillors are currently looking at various options to resolve this problem." Options include a vacancy freeze and the axing of vacant posts.

Mansfield District Council

Total budget: £16m

Funding gap: £1.8m

Gap caused by a fall in interest rates resulting in a lower return on investments, as well as increased prices and a fall in income. Savings will be made in refuse collection, town centre management and operations, street care, employee vacancies and restructures in planning and environmental health.

Newark and Sherwood District Council

Total budget: £18.2m

Funding gap: £1.2m

Increased costs include fuel and energy charges. In December, a report to councillors stated: "Unless savings can be found in 2009/10 to achieve the required £1.2m, it will be necessary either to use balances or to increase the level of Council Tax. Use of balances would be a risky strategy as it would not resolve the underlying position and would simply defer the need to find savings to the following financial year."

Ashfield District Council

Supplied no information

Bassetlaw District Council

Supplied no information

*The figures used are those most recently published by each council