Local Authority Budgeted Revenue Expenditure, 2012-13

Statistics on budgeted revenue expenditure and financing by Welsh authorities include data for police, fire and national park authorities, for 2012-13. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 14 June 2011.

The key points from the latest release are:

• Total budgeted gross revenue expenditure as reported by Welsh local authorities for 2012-13 is £7.8 billion, an increase of 2.6% on the previous year .
• County and county borough councils reported increases of 2.8% or £191 million in their gross revenue expenditure whilst police authorities reported an average increase of 0.6%. Fire authorities reported an average increase of 0.5% and national park authorities an increase of 9.9%.
• Education services accounted for 33% of the total budgeted expenditure and social services 19%.  These two services account for over half of the overall expenditure.
• Wrexham shows the largest county increase in gross revenue expenditure at 6.3%. Isle of Anglesey shows the only decrease at 0.3%.
• Net revenue expenditure, i.e. excluding specific and special grants, increased by 1.0% in 2012-13.

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3963
E-mail: stats.finance@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

June 2013 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)