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Data Provider: Welsh Government Budgeted education revenue expenditure by service and sector (£ thousand)
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[Collapse]Education14,0761,660,4741,295,739240,139229,0373,957,222-632,328
Education[Collapse]Schools budget14,0761,660,4741,295,739240,139229,0373,439,465-528,078
Schools budgetIndividual schools budget3,7621,489,2131,202,124193,394211,6963,100,188-428,530
Additional learning needs7344,27949,06330,1947,237130,846-10,548
Inter authority recoupment788,5233,6268,9522821,207-336
Staff03,5793,6412611517,6320
Other Schools budget10,164114,06036,6207,2449,776177,864-88,663
Capital expenditure charged to revenue account0820665941501,7290
[Collapse]LEA Budget.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable517,756-104,251
LEA BudgetAdditional learning needs.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable53,676-18,426
School improvement.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable35,354-13,595
Access to education (excluding transport) - school.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable65,437-19,827
Access to education (excluding transport) - non-school.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable3,044-3,986
Home to school transport.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable206,182-20
Home to college transport.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable11,0880
Further education and training for young persons and adults (excluding youth service).The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable28,656-22,180
Youth service.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable35,620-14,644
Strategic management - schools.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable64,708-4,059
Strategic management - non-school.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable3,388-1,403
Other LEA budget - schools.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable5,414-4,158
Other LEA budget - non-schools.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable5,189-1,953

Metadata

Title

Revenue budgeted expenditure: education

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 2017-18 onwards.

Statistical quality

See weblinks

Keywords

Local Government Finance, education school budget 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