MHCLG · Local authority revenue expenditure and financing, England: revenue outturn multi-year data · 13 values
Council spending on services by service
Net current expenditure by each English local authority split across the fourteen revenue outturn service lines — education, adult social care, children's social care, public health, highways and transport, housing outside the HRA, culture, environment, planning, police, fire, central and other services. The lines sum to the authority's total service expenditure.
latest 12 months to Year ending March 2025; 1 periods summed · total £134.2bn £ million
| service | Latest 12 months | Share | Previous 12 months | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education | £44.4bn | 33.1% | £39.8bn | ▲ 11.3% |
| Adult social care | £25.3bn | 18.8% | £23.5bn | ▲ 7.6% |
| Police | £16.9bn | 12.6% | £15.8bn | ▲ 6.9% |
| Children's social care | £15.6bn | 11.7% | £14.6bn | ▲ 7.4% |
| Environmental and regulatory | £6.6bn | 5% | £6.4bn | ▲ 3.9% |
| Highways and transport | £5.4bn | 4% | £4.9bn | ▲ 8.4% |
| Central services | £4.6bn | 3.4% | £4.3bn | ▲ 6.5% |
| Public health | £4.1bn | 3.1% | £3.9bn | ▲ 6.1% |
| Housing (non-HRA) | £3.2bn | 2.4% | £2.8bn | ▲ 15.1% |
| Fire and rescue | £2.8bn | 2.1% | £2.6bn | ▲ 7.6% |
| Cultural and related | £2.7bn | 2% | £2.7bn | ▼ 1.2% |
| Planning and development | £2.5bn | 1.9% | £2.2bn | ▲ 16.2% |
| Other services | £158m | 0.1% | £268m | ▼ 41% |
Source
- Dataset
- Local authority revenue expenditure and financing, England: revenue outturn multi-year data
- Rows
- ; values are the sum of the published rows for each service and period.
- Caveat
- A service line an authority reports as £0 is not stored, so absence means the authority spent nothing on that service (usually because another tier runs it), not missing data. Negative lines are published data: a service whose income exceeded its spend.
- Parent metric
- Council spending on services
- API
- /api/metrics/council_service_spend_by_service/vintages