MHCLG · service: Education

Council spending on services: Education

Year ending March 2025

£44.4bn£ million

Council spending on services for Education totalled £44.4bn £ million in the period to Year ending March 2025, up 11.3% (£4.5bn) on the period before.

MHCLG dataset
csv
England
column “RS_edu_net_exp”
44366476 per period
published 13 August 2026

Year ending March 2018 to Year ending March 2025

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What this measures

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.

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.

Source

Dataset: Local authority revenue expenditure and financing, England: revenue outturn multi-year data
Release: Outturn 2017-18 to 2024-25 (v3.2), published 13 August 2026 · sha256 885270cfc4d91354…
All values: Council spending on services by service