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Statistics: local authority and school finance

Statistics on local authority and school spending on education, including academies and children and young people's services.

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From:
Department for Education
Published:
24 September 2013
Last updated:
11 December 2025
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  1. 'LA and school expenditure: 2024 to 2025 financial year' and 'LA and school expenditure: 2023 to 2024 financial year' have been added to 'Local authority and school finance'.

  2. Added 'Planned local authority and school expenditure: 2024 to 2025 financial year'.

  3. Added 'LA and school expenditure: 2022 to 2023 financial year' to 'Local authority and school finance'.

  4. Added 'Planned local authority and school expenditure: 2023 to 2024 financial year'.

  5. 'LA and school expenditure: 2021 to 2022 financial year' has been added under 'Local authority and school finance'.

  6. Added 'Planned local authority and school expenditure: 2022 to 2023 financial year'.

  7. Added, 'LA and school expenditure: 2020 to 2021 financial year'.

  8. Added, "Planned LA and school expenditure: 2021 to 2022 financial year".

  9. Added 'Academy trust revenue reserves 2019 to 2020' to Academy revenue section.

  10. Added 'LA and school expenditure: 2019 to 2020 financial year'.

  11. Added LA and school expenditure: 2018 to 2019 financial year.

  12. Added 'Planned LA and school expenditure: 2019 to 2020 financial year' to the collection.

  13. Added information about publishing the maintained schools' finance data on the schools financial benchmarking service.

  14. Added 'LA and school expenditure: 2017 to 2018 financial year'.

  15. Added 'Planned LA and school expenditure: 2018 to 2019 financial year' to 'Planned local authority and school spending'.

  16. Added 'LA and school expenditure: 2016 to 2017 financial year'.

  17. Added 'Planned LA and school expenditure: 2017 to 2018 financial year'.

  18. Added 'Income and expenditure in academies in England: 2015 to 2016' to 'Academy spending'.

  19. Added 'LA and school expenditure: 2015 to 2016 financial year'.

  20. Added 'Planned LA and school expenditure: 2016 to 2017 financial year'.

  21. Added 'Income and expenditure in academies in England: 2014 to 2015' to 'Academy spending'.

  22. Added 'Schools, education and children’s services spending: 2014 to 2015'.

  23. Added 'Planned expenditure by local authorities in England: 2015 to 2016'.

  24. Added 'Income and expenditure in academies in England: 2013 to 2014'

  25. Updated page summary and added 'Income and expenditure in academies in England: 2012 to 2013' publication.

  26. Added 'Planned expenditure on schools, education and children’s services' to collection.

  27. Updated delayed 'Income and expenditure in academies in England: 2012 to 2013’ SFR note to state new publish date.

  28. LA and school expenditure: financial year 2012 to 2013 added to collection.

  29. First published.

Statistics from May 2010 onwards are available on GOV.UK. You can find our archived statistics on the UK Government Web Archive. Note: the search function is not available on archived content so please use the filters on the left of each page.

Local authority and school finance

Local-authority-maintained school and local authority spending on education, children and young people’s services and social care functions.

Planned local authority and school spending

We no longer publish data in this format.

Academy spending

Academy revenue

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