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Data Provider: Welsh Government CHART: Budgeted revenue expenditure by service
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[Expand]Click here to sortTotal Wales
[Collapse]Revenue expenditure11,602,329
Revenue expenditure[Expand]Education3,957,222
[Expand]Social Services3,139,258
[Expand]Council fund housing1,039,621
[Expand]Local environmental services537,420
[Expand]Roads and transport319,571
[Expand]Libraries, culture, heritage, sport and recreation235,565
[Expand]Planning, economic and community development159,768
[Expand]Local tax collection57,261
[Expand]Debt financing costs386,970
[Expand]Law, order and protective services1,259,133
[Expand]Central administration205,382
[Expand]Other revenue expenditure305,158

Metadata

Title

Revenue budgeted expenditure

Last update

June 2025 June 2025

Next update

June 2026

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Revenue budget (RA) 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

Revenue expenditure is the cost of running local authority services such as staffing, heating, lighting and cleaning, together with expenditure on goods and services consumed within the 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 2016-17 onwards.

Statistical quality

See weblinks

Keywords

Local Government Finance, budget revenue expenditure

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