This is the total amount of loans the council actually had outstanding at the end of the year — the sum of everything it has borrowed and not yet repaid. It matters because these are real loans with real interest bills. A high figure means big ongoing interest costs and repayments ahead; a low figure means the council owes lenders relatively little.
| name | gross_borrowing_end |
|---|---|
| dataset | 02-capital-outturn-debt |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | £000 |
| grain | council-year |
| role | feature |
| source | Capital_time_series_data_wide_24_03_26.csv, column PRU2T1_prubrwgrs_end |
| period | 2018-19 to 2024-25 |
| missingness | unknown |
| score_note | Raw stock duplicating cfr_end/net_debt_end territory; size-driven. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Gross borrowing outstanding at year end — the actual stock of external loans, as opposed to the borrowing need measured by CFR. It shows how much of the council's capital debt has been externalized to lenders; comparing it against CFR reveals internal borrowing. Filter to council classes, as the file also carries GLA and other bodies.