MHCLG · service: Highways and transport

Council spending on services: Highways and transport

Year ending March 2025

£5.4bn£ million

Council spending on services for Highways and transport totalled £5.4bn £ million in the period to Year ending March 2025, up 8.4% (£416.7m) on the period before.

  1. MHCLG dataset
  2. csv
  3. England
  4. column “RS_trans_net_exp
  5. 5351675 per period
  6. published 13 August 2026

Year ending March 2018 to Year ending March 2025

Council spending by service: Year ending March 2018 to Year ending March 2025ConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour02k4k6k2018202020222024Year ending March 2018: £4bn £ million · published 13 August 2026Year ending March 2019: £3.9bn £ million · published 13 August 2026Year ending March 2020: £3.8bn £ million · published 13 August 2026Year ending March 2021: £7.8bn £ million · published 13 August 2026Year ending March 2022: £5.3bn £ million · published 13 August 2026Year ending March 2023: £4.8bn £ million · published 13 August 2026Year ending March 2024: £4.9bn £ million · published 13 August 2026Year ending March 2025: £5.4bn £ million · published 13 August 2026

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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