Local Authority Budgeted Revenue Expenditure, 2008-09
The latest National Statistics on Local authority Budgeted Revenue Expenditure produced by the Welsh Assembly Government were released on 12 June 2008 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.
Statistics on budgeted revenue expenditure and financing by Welsh authorities include data for police, fire and national park authorities, for 2008-09. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 13 June 2007.
The Release
Statistical Release 79/2008 (PDF 181kB)
The key points from the latest release are:
- Total budgeted gross revenue expenditure as reported by Welsh local authorities for 2008-09 is £7 billion, which represents an increase of 3.6% on the previous year.
- County and county borough councils reported increases of 3.6% in their gross revenue expenditure whilst police authorities reported average increases of 4.4% and fire authorities an increase of 3.6%. National park authorities reported average decreases of 1.5%.
- Provision for education services accounted for 34% of the total budgeted gross revenue expenditure in 2008-09, social services for 19%, whilst police and fire services accounted for a further 9% and 2% respectively.
- Gwynedd shows the largest county increase in gross revenue expenditure at 6.4%. Merthyr Tydfil shows the lowest increase at 1.4%.
- Total budget requirement, which excludes expenditure financed by specific and special government grants and any use of reserves, has increased by 3.5% to £5.4 billion. This increase has been funded by increases of 3.1% in central government support (revenue support grant, re-distributed non-domestic rates and police grant) and 5.0% in the council tax requirement.
Contact:
Tel: 029 2082 3963
E-mail: stats.finance@wales.gsi.gov.uk
Next Update:
June 2009 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)