MHCLG · ODS · quarterly · UK

Local authorities borrowing and investments: UK live table (MHCLG)

The table covers every UK local government body, not just councils: county councils, police and crime commissioners, fire authorities, combined authorities, national parks and the GLA group all have rows. Figures are gross outstanding borrowing at the end of the quarter, in £ thousand, with no total column. Every quarter is restated at each release.

Official page
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-local-government-finance
Authority
First-party official statistics · OGL-UK-3.0
Latest release
Borrowing and investment live table, Q1 2026 to 2027, published 3 September 2026
Next expected
Quarterly, about ten weeks after the quarter it covers (estimated)
Extractor
ingest/ukdata/extractors/mhclg_borrowing.py

Metrics read from this publication

MetricSheet · tableRow labelUnit
Outstanding council borrowingLA_Borrowing_YY-YY_Qn · Outstanding borrowing by local authorityareas£ million

Releases ingested

PublishedReleaseObservationsFile
3 September 2026Borrowing and investment live table, Q1 2026 to 20279,093borrowing_q1_2026_27.ods
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API: council_borrowing_total