This is how much the council spent in a quarter on buying or building long-lasting things — roads, schools, housing, equipment. It matters because it shows whether the council is still investing in its infrastructure or has slowed down. High spending can mean ambitious building plans (sometimes funded by borrowing); very low spending can mean the council is short of money and letting its assets age.
| name | capex_fixed_assets_q |
|---|---|
| dataset | 02-capital-outturn-debt |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | £000 |
| grain | council-quarter |
| role | feature |
| source | Capital_payments_and_receipts_Q4_2025_to_2026_England.ods, sheet 2025-26_Q1-Q4_CPR4, column 'Expenditure: Total expenditure on fixed assets' |
| period | 2025-26 Q1-Q4 (provisional, quarterly) |
| missingness | unknown |
| score_note | Provisional in-year duplicate of the annual capex_fixed_assets; size-driven raw spend. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
In-year provisional capital spend on fixed assets per authority — the timely quarterly counterpart to the annual capex_fixed_assets. It lets the current year's capital programme be assessed before outturn data arrive. Figures are provisional in-year returns and may be revised at outturn.