Budgeted revenue expenditure by authority and service

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Year

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2024-25

2025-26

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Authority

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Total Wales has nested options

Total Unitary Authorities has nested options

Isle of Anglesey

Gwynedd

Conwy

Denbighshire

Flintshire

Wrexham

Powys

Ceredigion

Pembrokeshire

Carmarthenshire

Swansea

Neath Port Talbot

Bridgend

Vale of Glamorgan

Rhondda Cynon Taf

Merthyr Tydfil

Caerphilly

Blaenau Gwent

Torfaen

Monmouthshire

Newport

Cardiff

Total Police has nested options

Dyfed Powys Police

Gwent Police

North Wales Police

South Wales Police

Total Fire Authorities has nested options

Mid and West Wales Fire Authority

North Wales Fire Authority

South Wales Fire Authority

Total National Park Authorities has nested options

Bannau Brycheiniog NPA

Pembrokeshire Coast NPA

Eryri NPA

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Service

147 of 147 selected

Revenue expenditure has nested options

Education has nested options

Schools budget has nested options

Individual schools budget

Additional learning needs

Inter authority recoupment

Staff

Other Schools budget

Capital expenditure charged to revenue account

LEA Budget has nested options

Additional learning needs

School improvement

Access to education (excluding transport) - school

Access to education (excluding transport) - non-school

Home to school transport

Home to college transport

Further education and training for young persons and adults (excluding youth service)

Youth service

Strategic management - schools

Strategic management - non-school

Other LEA budget - schools

Other LEA budget - non-schools

Social Services has nested options

Children's and families services has nested options

Children's Centres/Flying Start and Early Years

Children looked after

Family support services

Youth justice

Safeguarding children and young peoples services

Asylum seekers - unaccompanied children and families

Services for young people

Other children's and family services

Service strategy - adults social services

Older people (aged 65 and over) including older mentally ill

Adults aged under 65 with a physical disability or sensory impairment

Adults aged under 65 with learning disabilities

Adults aged under 65 with mental health needs

Other adult social services

Council fund housing has nested options

Housing strategy

Licensing of private sector landlords

Contributions to the HRA

HRA related pension costs

Enabling

Housing advice

Housing advances

Private sector housing renewal

Homelessness

Housing benefits payments

Housing benefit administration

Welfare services

Supporting people

Other council fund housing

Local environmental services has nested options

Cemetery, cremation and mortuary services

Regulatory services - Environmental Health (including food safety and housing standards)

Street cleansing

Community safety (safety services)

Community safety (CCTV)

Community safety (crime reduction excluding CCTV)

Waste collection

Waste disposal

Trade waste

Recycling

Waste minimisation

Climate change costs

Trading Standards

Other central services to the public has nested options

Registration of births, deaths and marriages

Elections

Local land charges

General grants, bequests and donations

Local welfare assistance schemes

Emergency planning

Conservation of the Natural Environment

Conservation of Cultural Heritage

Recreation Management and Transport

Promoting understanding

Rangers, Estates and Volunteers

Development control

Forward planning and communities

Specialist Ring-fenced Accounts

Roads and transport has nested options

Transport planning, policy and strategy

Structural maintenance

Capital charges relating to construction projects

Environment, safety and routine maintenance

Winter service

Street lighting (including energy costs)

Traffic management and road safety

Parking services

Public transport

Airports, Harbours and toll facilities

Libraries, culture, heritage, sport and recreation has nested options

Library service

Culture and heritage

Recreation and sport

Open spaces

Tourism

Planning, economic and community development has nested options

Business support

Planning - building control

Planning - development control

Planning policy

Environmental initiatives

Economic development

Economic research

Community development

Local tax collection

Debt financing costs has nested options

Provision for repayment of principal

Commutation adjustment

External interest payments

Premia and discounts on debt rescheduling

HRA 'item 8' interest payments/receipts

Law, order and protective services has nested options

Total police

Levies to national police services

Total Fire service

Central administration has nested options

Corporate management

Democratic representation and management

Non distributable costs - Retirement benefits

Non distributable costs - Costs of unused shares of IT facilities and other assets

Other services including adjustment to capital charges in respect of recharged administration and support

Other revenue expenditure has nested options

Coast protection

Flood defence: own expenditure

Agriculture and fisheries services

Coroners' court services

Other court services

Unallocated contingencies

Community council precepts

Levies to the Environment Agency in respect of Local Flood Defence Committees

Levies to the Internal Drainage Boards

Levies to the Environment Agency acting as an Internal Drainage Board

Other levies

(Non-significant) surpluses/deficits on internal trading accounts not disaggregated to services

Other adjustments including administrative cost of late rating adjustments etc.

Bad debt 'provision'

Capital financing element within Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes

Leasing payments (excluding any capital financing element within PFI schemes)

Capital expenditure charged to revenue account

External interest receipts on non-HRA balances

External interest receipts on HRA balances

Appropriations to/from financial instruments adjustment account

Appropriations to/from unequal pay back pay account

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Next update expected:June 2026

Updates

21st October 2025
20th 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: 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, fire, police and national parks 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 revenue budget and capital forecast

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

Budgeted revenue expenditure by authority and service

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