Official Statistics

Local authority borrowing and investments 2012 to 2013

Statistics on borrowing and investments by local authorities in the UK.

From:
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Published
18 September 2013

Documents

Local authority borrowing and investments, UK 2012 to 2013

Ref: ISBN 9781409840183

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Pre-release access list: local authority borrowing and investments

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Details

The latest local authority borrowing and investments statistics produced by the Department for Communities and Local Government were released on Wednesday 18 September 2013.

Key points from the latest release are:

  • total gross borrowing of the local government sector in the UK rose by 2.9%, from £81.8 billion to £84.2 billion in the year to the end of 2012 to 2013; of this £2.4 billion national increase, £1.5 billion was due to increased borrowing by the Greater London Authority (GLA) and Transport for London (TfL)

  • total local authority borrowing has increased by £22.8 billion (37%), from £61.4 billion to £84.2 billion, since March 2007; however, excluding the one-off housing revenue account (HRA) settlement in March 2012 (£8.1 billion) and the increased borrowing by the 2 big all-London authorities mentioned above (£8.6 billion), borrowing by the rest of the local authority sector has increased by only £6.1 billion (10%) from £60.0 billion to £66.1 billion over these 6 years

  • total investments rose 13.8% from £26.1 billion to £29.7 billion in the year to the end of 2012 to 2013; of this £3.6 billion national increase, £1.9 billion was due to increased investments by the GLA and TfL

  • within investments, there was a £537 million decrease in resources invested in money market funds, of which £422 million was from TfL alone; similarly, £1.6 billion of the £2.3 billion increase in other securities was from TfL

Published 18 September 2013

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