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Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics Police authority 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 grantClick here to sortPolice grantPolice grant - The amount which is payable into the authority’s police fund in respect of police grant under the principal formula, i.e. the amount specified for the authority in the Police Grant Report (England and Wales).Click here to sortAmount to be collected from the council taxThe amount to be collected from the council tax is the aggregate of the amounts of precepts calculated (under section 48 of the 1992 Act) as the amounts payable by billing authorities to the police authority for the year.
2003-0466,00074,795209,185118,880
2004-0567,20075,248225,763138,850
2005-0667,20076,643234,984151,874
2006-0773,00075,790216,956161,527
2007-0879,10074,913224,972172,225
2008-0986,80071,287230,489182,408
2009-1089,40072,979236,271191,978
2010-1193,50073,287242,239201,334
2011-1278,70082,300245,744211,185
2012-1391,10059,900228,481220,576
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.82,56065,240240,091230,861
2014-1572,87067,130236,153240,907
2015-1666,92068,090221,923249,089
2016-1748,85087,907218,140257,969
2017-1852,95085,750211,234273,630
2018-1952,50088,400209,034290,140
2019-2053,05090,350213,882318,810
2020-2156,80086,600240,622340,226
2021-2255,05088,350264,828360,410
2022-231,135112,335318,173380,942
2023-241,022112,448319,674409,515
2024-251,139112,331345,515445,186

Metadata

Title

Budget requirement for police authorities

Last update

March 2024 March 2024

Next update

March 2025

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Budget Requirement (Police) (BR2) 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 only

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

Statistical quality

See weblinks

General description

The Welsh 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.

Keywords

Local Government Finance, police budget requirement

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