Local Authority Provisional Outturn (2013-14) and Budget Estimates (2014-15)
27 May 2014 04:28 PM
An Official Statistics Publication for
Scotland.
Scotland’s
Chief Statistician yesterday published Provisional Outturn 2013-14 and Budget
Estimates 2014-15 Statistics. The publication provides net revenue expenditure
figures for all the main services carried out by Scotland’s local
authorities.
For 2013-14
Scotland’s local authorities’ provisional outturn total net revenue
expenditure was £11.716 billion. Of this figure, £4.608 billion
(39.3%) was on Education, and £3.018 billion (25.8%) was on Social Work
services. These two services account for over half of the overall
expenditure.
2013-14
provisional outturn for other main services are: Environmental Services
£0.675 billion (5.8%), Culture and Related Services £0.602 billion
(5.1%), Roads & Transport £0.459 billion (3.9%), Planning &
Development £0.300 billion (2.6%). All other expenditure, including
non-HRA housing and Central Services totals £2.054 billion, 17.5% of the
total provisional outturn net revenue expenditure.
For 2014-15
Scotland’s local authorities have set a net revenue expenditure budget
estimate of £11.788 billion for spending on all services. Of this total,
£4.615 billion (39.1%) is for Education, and £3.018 billion (25.6%)
is for Social Work services.
2014-15 budget
estimates for other main services are: Environmental Services £0.682
billion (5.8%), Culture and Related Services £0.619 billion (5.3%), Roads
& Transport £0.449 billion (3.8%), Planning & Development
£0.298 billion (2.5%). All other expenditure, including non-HRA housing
and Central Services totals £2.107 billion, 17.9% of the total budgeted
net revenue expenditure.
The figures
released yesterday were produced by independent statistical staff free from any
political interference, in accordance with professional standards set out in
the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
Notes To
Editors
The Scottish
Government’s Provisional Outturn and Budget Estimates (POBE) has been
collected with the help of the 32 unitary local authorities. The continued
co-operation of these bodies in completing these returns is gratefully
acknowledged.
The provisional
outturn 2013-14 expenditure are provisional figures, the final outturn 2013-14
net revenue expenditure figures will be published in the Scottish Local
Government Financial Statistics (SLGFS) 2013-14, scheduled for publication in
February 2015.
All data are net
revenue expenditure figures.
Local Government
expenditure is split between revenue and capital expenditure. This publication
covers revenue expenditure only. Revenue expenditure is largely made up of
employee and operating costs. Gross Revenue Expenditure is the total
expenditure on local authority services within a financial year and net revenue
expenditure is the gross revenue expenditure less any specific income for
individual services. Net revenue expenditure is therefore the expenditure to be
financed from General Revenue Funding, Non-Domestic Rates income, Council Tax
income and Local Authority Reserves.
The full
statistical publication is available at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/05/6411
This publication
contains a breakdown of provisional outturn and budget estimates by local
authority and service.
Official
statistics are produced by professionally independent statistical staff –
more information on the standards of official statistics in Scotland can be
accessed at:http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/About