Budget requirement by authority

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Next update expected:March 2027

Updates

24th March 2026

Added 2026-27 data.

20th October 2025
Dataset first published.

Main information

Designation
Accredited official statistics
Data provider
Local Authorities
Data source
Budget requirement (BR1) data collection
Time period covered
April 1996 to March 2027

Overview

Summary of dataset and variables

The Welsh Government conducts the budget requirement survey. Data are available on revenue expenditure, net of specific grants and any transfer to/from reserves, budgeted by each county council and police authority for the next financial year. The data also includes a broad analysis of the funding of that expenditure, including the levels of council tax set by each authority.

Data cover Wales for all years since 1996-97. Data for earlier years is available for the former districts and counties of Wales, which were re-organised on 1 April 1996. Data for individual police authorities are available for all years since 1995-96, when these bodies became free-standing, with the power to set their own council tax.

The survey has been conducted every February since 1993-94. Results are available in late March, approximately one week before the beginning of the reference financial year.

Data collection or calculation

The data requested and provided by local authorities are required under legislation.

Statistical quality

The collection is a 100% survey and as such no estimation of the figures is calculated, and hence there is no sampling error.

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Organisation
Welsh Government
Contact email
stats.finance@gov.wales