This is the money the council set aside from its yearly budget to repay its borrowing — a bit like the repayment part of a mortgage payment. Councils are required to do this so their debts actually get paid off over time. A reasonable figure means the council is honestly budgeting for its debts; a suspiciously small one (compared with what it owes) means it is deferring the pain and future budgets will have to pick up the tab.
| name | mrp |
|---|---|
| dataset | 02-capital-outturn-debt |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | £000/yr |
| grain | council-year |
| role | feature |
| source | Capital_time_series_data_wide_24_03_26.csv, column PRU1_prurpyrevmrp_amt |
| period | 2018-19 to 2024-25 |
| missingness | unknown |
| score_note | Statutory jargon and size-driven; its power comes only via mrp_adequacy. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Minimum Revenue Provision — the statutory annual revenue charge a council must set aside to repay capital debt; the core principal component of debt-servicing cost. For efficiency scoring, MRP is money diverted from services to service debt, and abnormally low MRP relative to debt stock indicates deferred repayment (under-provisioning), a known distress precursor. Use the non-HRA _amt column for like-for-like comparisons.