LA Revenue Expenditure and Financing: Final Outturn

The latest national statistics on the final outturn estimates of local authority revenue expenditure and financing for 2008-09 were released on 3 December 2009 under arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

The key points from the latest release are:

- Total net current expenditure by local authorities in England was estimated to be £113.1 billion in 2008-09 compared with £108.2 billion in 2007-08, an increase of 4 per cent.

- 37 per cent of net current expenditure in 2008-09 was on education, 17 per cent on social care, 13 per cent on housing benefits and 10 per cent on police.

- 54 per cent of revenue expenditure (on a non-Financial Reporting Standard 17 basis) in 2008-09 was funded by government grants, 25 per cent by council tax and 21 per cent by redistributed non-domestic rates.

The full report is available here