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Budgeted education revenue expenditure by authority and service

Next update expected:June 2026

Updates

• 16th October 2025: Dataset first published.

Main information

• Designation: Accredited official statistics
• Data provider: Local Authorities
• Data source: Revenue budget (RA) data collection
• Time period covered: April 2024 to March 2026

Overview

• Summary of dataset and variables:

  Education expenditure data covers nursery, primary, secondary and special schools including teacher costs, home to school transport and schools repairs and maintenance. Education expenditure also covers out of schools services such as youth service, community and further education. Both budgeted and outturn data are available

  Revenue expenditure is the cost of running local authority services such as staffing, heating, lighting and cleaning, together with expenditure on goods and services consumed within the 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.

• Related reports:
  • Local authority budgeted expenditure on schools
  • Local authority revenue budget and capital forecast
  • Budgeted expenditure on Special Educational Needs provision

Published by

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