National statistics

Local authority revenue expenditure and financing in England: 2012 to 2013 final outturn

This release provides budget estimates of local authority revenue expenditure and financing for the financial year.

Applies to England

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Local authority revenue expenditure and financing: 2012 to 2013 final outturn, England

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Table 1: revenue expenditure by service 2011 to 2012 and 2012 to 2013

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Table 2: revenue expenditure and financing 2011 to 2012 and 2012 to 2013

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Table 3: net current expenditure by service 2008 to 2009 to 2012 to 2013

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Table 4: financing of revenue expenditure since 2008 to 2009

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Table 5: top 5 incomes from specific grants 2012 to 2013

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Table 6: revenue expenditure per capita from 2008 to 2009

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Table 7: level of revenue reserves since 2008 to 2009

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Table 8: comparison of service expenditure and net current expenditure in 2012 to 2013

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Table 9: local government pay by pay negotiating group from 2008 to 2009

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Annex A1: revenue outturn summary (RS) 2012 to 2013

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Annex A2: revenue outturn service expenditure summary (RSX) 2012 to 2013

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Annex A3: income from specific grants (RG) 2012 to 2013

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Annex A4: revenue outturn education services (RO1) 2012 to 2013

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Annex A5: revenue outturn highways and transport services (RO2) 2012 to 2013

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Annex A6: revenue outturn social care (RO3) 2012 to 2013

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Annex A7: revenue outturn housing services (RO4) 2012 to 2013

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Annex A8: revenue outturn cultural, environmental, regulatory and planning services (RO5) 2012 to 2013

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Annex A9: revenue outturn protective, central and other services (RO6) 2012 to 2013

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Annex A10: trading account services return (TSR) 2012 to 2013

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Annex A11: subjective analysis return (SAR) 2012 to 2013

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Annex B: derivation of service lines used in table 1

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Annex C: derivation of service lines used in table 2

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Annex D: distribution of local authorities by classification

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Annex E: total number of authorities completing the 2012 to 2013 SAR form and total in England

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Details

The latest national statistics on the final outturn estimates of local authority revenue expenditure and financing for 2011 to 2012 were released on 28 November 2013 under arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

The key points from the latest release are:

  • total revenue expenditure by local authorities in England was £94.3 billion in 2012 to 2013, a decrease of 5.0% from £99.3 billion in 2011 to 2012; the majority of the decrease was due to a decrease in education expenditure, from £40.2 billion in 2011 to 2012 to £37.1 billion in 2012 to 2013
  • education expenditure for 2012 to 2013 is not comparable to previous years due to a number of schools changing their status to become academies, which are centrally funded rather than funded by local authorities
  • 28.3% of revenue expenditure in 2012 to 2013 was funded through council tax, 29.5% through formula grant and 44.8% through specific grants inside aggregate externalfFinance and local services support grant; these percentages were 26.6%, 29.7% and 46.1% respectively in 2011 to 2012
  • local authorities net current expenditure for education services was £37.1 billion in 2012 to 2013; social care services were £21.1 billion, mandatory housing benefits were £20.7 billion, and police services were £11.3 billion
  • in 2012 to 2013 local authorities added £2.6 billion to their reserves, the same amount as in 2011 to 2012; the 2012 to 2013 figure includes Greater London Authority, who added £0.9 billion to their reserves
Published 28 November 2013
Last updated 19 February 2014 + show all updates
  1. Added revised release and tables.

  2. Minor revisions to RO final outturn, tables 1,2,4,5 and 6, Annexes A1, A3 and A5

  3. Error corrected in Table 9.

  4. First published.