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Local authority revenue expenditure and financing in England: 2009 to 2010 provisional outturn

The latest national statistics on the provisional outturn estimates of local authority revenue expenditure and financing for 2009-10 were released…

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Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England 2009-10 provisional outturn

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Local authority revenue expenditure and financing England 2009-10 provisional outturn

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Annex A - Provisional Revenue Outturn Summary (RS) 2009-10

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Annex B - Provisional Revenue Outturn Service Expenditure Summary (RSX) 2009-10

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Annex C - Derivation of service lines used in Table 1

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Table 1 - Net current expenditure by service 2008-09 and 2009-10

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Table 2 - Revenue expenditure and financing 2009-10

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Table 3 - Financing of revenue expenditure since 2004-05

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The latest national statistics on the provisional outturn estimates of local authority revenue expenditure and financing for 2009-10 were released on 27 August 2010 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 £121.3 billion in 2009-10 compared with £113.1 billion in 2008-09, an increase of 7 per cent.
  • The definition of total net current expenditure has changed for this year to include revenue expenditure funded from capital by statue (RECS). Removing RECS, the 2009-10 net current expenditure figure is £119.4 billion. If compared to the 2008-09 figure of £113.1 billion, this is an increase of 6 per cent.
  • 37 per cent of net current expenditure in 2009-10 was on education, 17 per cent on social care, 14 per cent on housing benefits and 10 per cent on police.
  • 56 per cent of revenue expenditure on a non-Financial Reporting Standard 17 basis in 2009-10 was funded by government grants, 25 per cent by council tax and 19 per cent by redistributed non-domestic rates.

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Published 27 August 2010

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