Guidance
The Single Data List
Updated 20 May 2025
Applies to England
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MHCLG is reviewing the Single Data List (SDL) process in the context of the government’s aim to minimise burdens on local government. This may include use of technological advances. The aim is to ensure data expectations are proportionate and clear for local authorities whilst ensuring central government departments continue to have access to data for a variety of purposes including policy making and evaluation.
Single Data List of central government data requirements from local government 2025-26.
1. Central government departments
| Data collection | Dept. | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| National Fraud Initiative (NFI) | CO | 170-00 |
| Weights and measures enforcement (section 70) | DBT/OPSS | 001-00 |
| Animal Welfare: during transport | Defra | 069-00 |
| Animal Health & Welfare Management and Enforcement System (AMES) | Defra | 071-00 |
| Return of expenditure incurred and prosecutions undertaken under the Animal Health Act 1981 and incidences of disease in imported animals | Defra | 073-00 |
| Local Pollution Control Statistical Survey (LPCSS) | Defra | 075-00 |
| Flood and coastal erosion risk management and sustainable drainage systems | Defra | 080-00 |
| Local nature conservation/biodiversity | Defra | 160-00 |
| WasteDataFlow - LA waste management statistics | Defra | 082-00 |
| Local Authority Private Water Supplies Data submission | Defra | 083-00 |
| Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers | Defra | 256-00 |
| Local Authorities statistical information on Smallholdings (County Farms) | Defra | 257-00 |
| Animal activities licensing data return | Defra | 266-00 |
| Penalty Notices for animal health and welfare offences | Defra | 278-00 |
| Children in Need Census | DfE | 087-00 |
| Children Looked After (CLA) (SSDA903) | DfE | 088-00 |
| Children’s Social Care Work Workforce | DfE | 091-00 |
| Secure Children’s Homes (SA1) | DfE | 092-00 |
| Early Years Census | DfE | 096-00 |
| Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) | DfE | 098-00 |
| Admissions: Parental Preferences met | DfE | 100-00 |
| Admissions: report to the School Adjudicator | DfE | 101-00 |
| Key Stage assessment data | DfE | 161-00 |
| School Census | DfE | 159-00 |
| Alternative Provision Census | DfE | 102-00 |
| Parental Responsibility Measures – Attendance | DfE | 104-00 |
| School Admissions Appeals | DfE | 107-00 |
| School Capacity | DfE | 108-00 |
| School Condition | DfE | 216-00 |
| School Exclusion Appeals | DfE | 109-00 |
| School Workforce Reviews | DfE | 111-00 |
| Section 251 financial return | DfE | 113-00 |
| Teacher Pension Contributions | DfE | 117-00 |
| Teacher Pension Service | DfE | 118-00 |
| Young people aged 16-19 (and up to 25 with SEND) | DfE | 119-00 |
| Chief Finance Officer Sign-Off Statements | DfE | 120-00 |
| Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) | DfE | 171-00 |
| Children with Statements of Special Educational Needs (SEN2) | DfE | 189-00 |
| Local Authority Data Collection of Linked and Federated Provision | DfE | 224-00 |
| Elective Home Education (EHE) and Children Missing Education (CME) | DfE | 277-00 |
| Agency child and family social workers data collection | DfE | 279-00 |
| Concessionary Travel Survey | DfT | 121-00 |
| Local bus punctuality | DfT | 122-00 |
| Taxi Survey | DfT | 125-00 |
| Blue Badge Parking Survey | DfT | 127-00 |
| Highway inventory data | DfT | 129-00 |
| Winter salt stock holdings | DfT | 251-00 |
| Road condition data | DfT | 130-00 |
| Road Lengths Survey | DfT | 132-00 |
| Child Death Review Panels (LSCB1) | DHSC | 086-00 |
| National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) | DHSC/OHID | 253-00 |
| Collation of NHS Health Check quarterly data return | DHSC/OHID | 254-00 |
| Oral Health Surveys | DHSC/OHID | 262-00 |
| House Building Return (P2a) | MHCLG | 002-00 |
| Housing Flows Reconciliation Form (HFR) | MHCLG | 003-00 |
| CORE (Continuous Recording) of lettings by local authorities | MHCLG | 065-00 |
| Rough Sleeping Snapshot Statistics | MHCLG | 010-00 |
| Count of traveller caravans | MHCLG | 013-00 |
| Housing Capital Receipts pooling | MHCLG | 167-00 |
| Annual Green Belt (AGB) return | MHCLG | 020-00 |
| PS1/2 District matters planning statistical returns | MHCLG | 021-00 |
| CPS1/2 County matters planning statistical returns | MHCLG | 022-00 |
| Revenue Summary (RS) | MHCLG | 026-00 |
| Revenue Grants (RG) | MHCLG | 027-00 |
| Revenue Outturn (RO) | MHCLG | 028-00 |
| Trading Services Return (TSR) | MHCLG | 029-00 |
| Subjective Analysis Return (SAR) | MHCLG | 030-00 |
| Revenue Account budget (RA) | MHCLG | 032-00 |
| Revenue Account Specific and Special Grants (SG) | MHCLG | 033-00 |
| Capital Outturn Return (COR) Expenditure & Receipts | MHCLG | 035-00 |
| Capital Outturn Return (COR) Financing | MHCLG | 036-00 |
| Capital Outturn Return (COR) Prudential System | MHCLG | 037-00 |
| Capital Outturn Return (COR) receipts and major repairs reserve | MHCLG | 038-00 |
| Capital Estimates Return (CER) | MHCLG | 040-00 |
| Capital Payments and Receipts (CPR1 to CPR 4) | MHCLG | 041-00 |
| Council Tax Requirement (CTR1/CTR2/CTR3/CTR4) | MHCLG | 042-00 |
| Quarterly Return of Council Taxes and Non-domestic rates (QRC1 to QRC3) | MHCLG | 043-00 |
| Quarterly Return of Council Taxes and Non-domestic rates (QRC4) | MHCLG | 166-00 |
| Quarterly Revenue Outturn (QRO) | MHCLG | 044-00 |
| Council Tax Base (CTB) | MHCLG | 045-00 |
| National Non-domestic Rates Return (NNDR) 1 | MHCLG | 046-00 |
| National Non-domestic Rates Return (NNDR) 3 | MHCLG | 048-00 |
| Local Government Pension Scheme Funds Form (SF3) | MHCLG | 050-00 |
| Monthly Borrowing and Lending Inquiry | MHCLG | 051-00 |
| Quarterly Borrowing and Lending Inquiry | MHCLG | 052-00 |
| Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding (SBCH) | MHCLG | 265-00 |
| Housing Delivery Test data | MHCLG | 267-00 |
| Local Authority Housing Statistics | MHCLG | 252-00 |
| H-CLIC (Homelessness Case Level Information Collection) | MHCLG | 268-00 |
| Names of additional Public Private Partnership / Private Finance Initiative Projects (for ONS & HMT) | MHCLG | 271-00 |
| Exit payments | MHCLG | 272-00 |
| Capital Outturn Return (COR) Local Authority Trading companies (New) | MHCLG | 273-00 |
| Domestic Abuse Tier 1 Safe Accommodation (New) | MHCLG | 274-00 |
| Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) | DWP | 146-00 |
| Housing Benefits Recoveries Return | DWP | 147-00 |
| Housing Benefit (HB) subsidy estimates and claims | DWP | 150-00 |
| Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) estimates and claims | DWP | 151-00 |
| Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) | HMT(MHCLG) | 183-00 |
| Fire and rescue incident data | HO | 060-00 |
| Fire and rescue service non-financial annual returns | HO | 061-00 |
| Fire Fighters Pension Fund - Non-financial data | HO | 172-00 |
| Fire Fighters Pension Fund - Financial data | HO | 173-00 |
| Alcohol and Late Night Refreshment Licensing | HO | 163-00 |
2. Central government bodies, agencies and arm’s length bodies
| Data collection | Agency/body | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Gambling Licensing Authority Returns | DCMS/GC | 207-00 |
| Developments in flood risk areas | Defra/EA | 243-00 |
| Strategic Overview of Flood and Coastal Erosion risk | Defra/EA | 245-00 |
| Reporting on EU Flood Risk Regulations | Defra/EA | 246-00 |
| Foster care data set and self assessment | DfE/Ofsted | 222-00 |
| Local Authority Adult and Community Learning provision. | DfE/Ofsted | 225-00 |
| Schools capital outturn | DfE/ESFA | 203-00 |
| Information to support calculations of the minimum funding guarantee to Academies | DfE/ESFA | 206-00 |
| Adult Social Care Survey (ASCS) | DHSC/NHSE | 135-00 |
| Mental Health Guardianship (SSDA702) return | DHSC/NHSE | 138-00 |
| Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) Return | DHSC/NHSE | 139-00 |
| Survey of Adult Carers in England (SACE) | DHSC/NHSE | 140-00 |
| Register of blind and partially sighted people (SSDA902) | DHSC/NHSE | 144-00 |
| Safeguarding Adults Collection | DHSC/NHSE | 258-00 |
| Adult Social Care Finance Return (ASC-FR) | DHSC/NHSE | 261-00 |
| Deferred Payment Agreements (DPA) | DHSC/NHSE | 263-00 |
| Adult Social Care Client Level Data (CLD) (New) | DHSC/NHSE | 275-00 |
| Local Authority Data Return (LADR) | MHCLG/RSH | 270-00 |
| Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSM) (New) | MHCLG/RSH | 276-00 |
| Health & Safety Enforcement Data (LAE1) | DWP/HSE | 154-00 |
| Youth Justice Application Framework (YJAF) | MoJ/YJB | 180-00 |
3. Other independent public bodies
| Data collection | Other | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Food Hygiene (LA food law enforcement monitoring return) | FSA | 190-00 |
| Food Standards (LA food law enforcement monitoring return) | FSA | 191-00 |
| Central Lists of Feed Business Establishments | FSA | 193-00 |
| Approved Food Premises | FSA | 194-00 |
| Imported Food Safeguard Measures | FSA | 195-00 |
| Animal Feed Data returns | FSA | 196-00 |
| Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) | FSA | 197-00 |
| Electoral Statistics | ONS | 215-00 |
| Quarterly Public Sector Employment Survey - local authority data collection | ONS | 054-00 |
| Council Tax Data Acquisition from Local Authorities | ONS | 269-00 |
4. Other independent bodies
| Data collection | Other (a) | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) | DHSC/SfC | 142-00 |
5. Other public bodies not part of the single data list
| Data collection | Other (x) | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Performance Standards for Electoral Registration Officers | EC | 227-00 |
| Performance Standards for Returning Officers | EC | 228-00 |
| Statement of Postal Ballot Papers | EC | 229-00 |
| Return of statistical information relating to conduct of elections | EC | 232-00 |
| Statement of results | EC | 250-00 |
Note: Collections by the Electoral Commission are included here for completeness. The commission is a body entirely independent from government and these returns are not subject to the normal arrangements for the Single Data List
List of acronyms
Central government departments
| Dept. | Central government departments |
|---|---|
| CO | Cabinet Office |
| DBT/OPSS | Department for Business and Trade - Office for Product Safety and Standards |
| Defra | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| DfE | Department for Education |
| DfT | Department for Transport |
| DHSC | Department of Health and Social Care |
| DHSC/OHID | Department of Health and Social Care - Office for Health Improvement and Disparities |
| DWP | Department for Work and Pensions |
| HMT(MHCLG) | HM Treasury (via MHCLG) |
| HO | Home Office |
| MHCLG | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
Central government bodies, agencies and arm’s length bodies
| Agency/body | Central government bodies, agencies and arm’s length bodies |
|---|---|
| DCMS/GC | Department for Culture, Media and Sport - Gambling Commission |
| Defra/EA | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Environment Agency |
| DfE/Ofsted | Department for Education - Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills |
| DfE/TRA | Department for Education - Teaching Regulation Agency |
| DfE/ESFA | Department for Education - Education and Skills Funding Agency |
| DHSC/NHSE | Department of Health and Social Care - National Health Service England |
| DWP/HSE | Department for Work and Pensions - Health and Safety Executive |
| MHCLG/RSH | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government - Regulator of Social Housing |
| MoJ/YJB | Ministry of Justice - Youth Justice Board |
Other independent public bodies
| Other | Other independent public bodies |
|---|---|
| FSA | Food Standards Agency |
| ONS | Office for National Statistics |
Other independent bodies
| Other (a) | Other independent bodies |
|---|---|
| DHSC/SfC | Department of Health and Social Care - Skills for Care |
Other public bodies not part of the single data list
| Other (x) | Other public bodies not part of the single data list |
|---|---|
| EC | Electoral Commission |
Notes: The Single Data List is a list of all data returns that central government requires from local government relating to their function as a local authority. Most of the returns listed are completed directly by the local authority but returns are included in the list where the authority has some other form of mandatory involvement, such as in producing the Schools Census.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government - April 2025