The council's real bottom-line running cost for the year — what it must find from government grants, council tax and its savings once everything else is netted off. It matters because it is the budget the council actually has to fund, and it is the yardstick for judging whether its savings are big enough. It mainly tracks council size, so what counts is how it moves over time and compares with similar councils.
| name | net-revenue-expenditure |
|---|---|
| dataset | 01-revenue-outturn |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | £000 per year |
| grain | council-year |
| role | denominator |
| source | "data/Revenue_Outturn_time_series_data_v3.2.csv, column `RS_netrevexp_net_exp`" |
| period | "FY 2017-18 to 2024-25, annual (year_ending 201803-202503)" |
| missingness | "Rows with status other than "submitted" (i.e. "total" aggregates and "not submitted") must be filtered out; a non-submitted council-year is a genuine gap, not zero. 2024-25 covers 410/411 councils. Councils abolished/created in 2017-25 reorganisations appear only for the years they existed." |
| score_note | Reliable denominator for reserves cover but a size measure, not an efficiency discriminator. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Service spend after capital and financing adjustments — the budget the council actually has to finance from grants, council tax and reserves, in £ thousands per year. It is the denominator for reserves cover, the key resilience ratio. As with all RS lines, use submitted rows only and compare within LA_class.