Detailed summary of revenue outturn expenditure by authority and service

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1 of 1 selected

£ thousand

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Year

23 of 23 selected

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

2024-25

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Service

120 of 120 selected

Schools expenditure (including delegated and non-delegated funding)

Non-school expenditure

Transport planning, policy and strategy

Highways and roads

Transport

Personal social services - children and families

Service strategy - adult services

Personal social services - older persons

Personal social services - adults aged under 65

Personal social services - other

Cultural and heritage services

Library services

Recreation and sport

Open spaces

Tourism

Cemetery, cremation and mortuary services

Coast protection

Environmental health

Street cleansing (not chargeable to highways)

Community safety

Own flood defence and land drainage services

Own agriculture and fisheries services

Trading standards/Consumer protection

Waste collection

Waste

Waste disposal

Building control

Development control

Planning policy

Environmental initiatives

Business support

Economic research

Economic development

Community development (county and county borough councils)

Magistrates' courts services

Coroners' and other courts services

Housing strategy

Registered social landlords

Housing advice

Housing advances

Private sector housing renewal

Homelessness

Housing benefit payments

Housing council fund

Housing benefit administration

Other council fund housing

Council tax benefit payment and related administration

Local tax collection

Elections

Emergency planning

Other central services to the public

Police services

Community fire safety

Fire-fighting and rescue operations

Fire service emergency planning

Fire services

Fire service emergency planning and civil defence

All other fire services

National parks conservation

National parks services

National parks planning

National parks recreation and park management

National parks promoting understanding and enjoyment

Corporate and democratic core

Non-distributed costs/Unapportionable central overheads

Other central costs

COVID-19 - costs not included in above service lines

Total service expenditure

Community council precepts

Payments to/from fire authorities

Levies to/from national parks

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

Levies paid to the Internal Drainage Boards

Levies paid to the Environment Agency acting as an Internal Drainage Board

Levies paid to Sea Fisheries Committees

Levies to national police services

Other levies

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

Other adjustments to net current expenditure

Net current expenditure

Bad debt 'provision'

Provision for repayment of principal (before application of the commutation adjustment)

Commutation adjustment (enter as a negative any adjustment which reduces MRP and vice versa)

External interest payments excluding any premia and discounts on debt rescheduling

Premia and discounts on debt rescheduling

HRA 'item 8' interest payments/receipts

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

Revenue expenditure funded from capital by statute (RECS)

Pensions interest cost and expected return on pensions assets

Appropriations to(+) / from(-) pension reserves

Appropriations to(+) / from(-) financial instruments adjustment account

Appropriations to(+) / from(-) unequal pay back pay account

Appropriations to(+) / from(-) Accumulated Absences Account

External interest on provision for credit liabilities (including 'set-aside' capital receipts), housing advances and other sources

External interest receipts on HRA balances

Community Infrastructure Levy

Gross revenue expenditure

less specific and special grants outside AEF (excluding council tax benefit and rate relief grants)

Revenue expenditure

less specific and special grants inside AEF

less specific and special grants

Net revenue expenditure

In year council tax collection adjustment

Other adjustments

Appropriations to(+) / from(-) earmarked financial reserves (excluding schools' financial reserves)

Appropriations to(+) / from(-) unallocated financial reserves

Council tax reduction scheme (including RSG element)

Budget requirement

Budgeted net discretionary non-domestic rate relief paid for by council fund

Budget requirement plus net council fund discretionary non-domestic rate relief

less transitional grant

less police grant allocation under principal formula

less revenue support grant

less council tax reduction scheme (including RSG element)

less redistributed non-domestic rates income

Aggregate of council tax precepts

less council tax reduction scheme grant

Amount to be raised from council tax payers

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Column

3 of 3 selected

Gross expenditure

Total income

Net (current) expenditure

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Authority

37 of 37 selected

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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Data description

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Service

Column

Authority

Next update expected:October 2026

Updates

16th October 2025: Dataset first published.

Main information

Designation: Accredited official statistics
Data provider: Local Authorities
Data source: Revenue outturn (RO) data collection
Time period covered: April 2002 to March 2025

Overview

Summary of dataset and variables: Revenue outturn expenditure data analyses the revenue expenditure that Welsh local authorities actually spent in previous financial years.
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 and capital outturn expenditure

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

Detailed summary of revenue outturn expenditure by authority and service

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