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Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics Budget requirement by source of income (£ thousands except where specified)
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Click here to sortRe-distributed non-domestic ratesClick here to sortRevenue support grantBudget requirement and RSG figures for 2013-14 are not comparable with previous years because of the discontinuation of council tax benefit. Previously council tax benefit grants were provided by the Department of Work and Pensions but reforms mean that aClick here to sortAmount to be collected from the council taxThe amount calculated by the authority under section 32(4) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (\'the 1992 Act\'). All levies, special levies and precepts issued by local precepting authorities are included in the amount calculated under section 32(4).
1996-97404,5281,723,809448,924
1997-98514,3581,675,079451,177
1998-99540,2261,746,407517,941
1999-00581,2311,834,286552,854
2000-01584,5161,952,117607,199
2001-02627,3002,075,472(!) Adjusted for transitional grant scheme630,063
2002-03578,7002,257,760(!) Adjusted for transitional grant scheme680,115
2003-04594,0002,458,639742,097
2004-05604,8002,515,751785,275
2005-06604,8002,674,963860,125
2006-07657,0002,875,973909,661
2007-08711,9002,986,653958,606
2008-09781,2003,033,3541,005,475
2009-10804,6003,118,7151,048,242
2010-11841,5003,209,0911,094,060
2011-12708,3003,299,8321,132,136
2012-13819,9003,197,1051,160,320
2013-14Budget requirement and RSG figures for 2013-14 and beyond are not comparable with previous years because of the discontinuation of council tax benefit. Previously council tax benefit grants were provided by the Department of Work and Pensions but reforms mean that authorities in Wales are now funded through additional revenue support grant and council tax reduction scheme grant from the Welsh Government.949,4403,423,5941,192,284
2014-15968,1303,296,3361,256,089
2015-16889,0803,235,6291,321,762
2016-17928,1503,173,4011,380,784
2017-181,006,0503,107,5701,440,330
2018-19997,5003,216,5671,523,422
2019-201,007,9503,229,4811,628,616
2020-211,079,2003,395,2441,723,813
2021-221,045,9503,605,5441,796,330
2022-231,133,8653,973,7291,847,945
2023-241,020,9784,498,9111,963,352
2024-251,137,8614,582,6632,147,846

Metadata

Title

Budget requirement for local authorities

Last update

March 2024 March 2024

Next update

March 2025

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Budget Requirement (BR1) data collection, Welsh Government

Contact email

stats.finance@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Geographical coverage

Local authorities

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

The Welsh Assembly Government conducts the budget requirement survey. Data are available on revenue expenditure, net of specific grants and any transfer to/from reserves, budgeted by each county council and police authority for the next financial year. The data also includes a broad analysis of the funding of that expenditure, including the levels of council tax set by each authority.

Data cover Wales for all years since 1996-97. Data for earlier years is available for the former districts and counties of Wales, which were re-organised on 1 April 1996. Data for individual police authorities are available for all years since 1995-96, when these bodies became free-standing, with the power to set their own council tax.

The survey has been conducted every February since 1993-94. Results are available in late March, approximately one week before the beginning of the reference financial year.

Data collection and calculation

The information presented here is collected via annual returns from Welsh Local Authorities.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data are shown for each financial year from 1996-97 onwards.

Weblinks

The associated statistical releases can be found via the links at the following webpage:
https://gov.wales/statistics-and-research?lang=en
A statistical quality report relating to all Local Government Finance statistical releases can be found at the following webpage:
https://gov.wales/local-government-finance-statistics-quality-report


Keywords

Local Government Finance, budget requirement

Statistical quality

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