Total Place pilots identify œ10bn

Author: Local Government Chronicle   |  

Fresh figures have emerged as to scale of public spending across different council areas as the government’s Total Place programme begins to bear fruit.

The first pilots to complete their counting phase ? Birmingham City Council and Worcestershire CC ? have identified more than œ10bn of public expenditure.

A consultancy report for Birmingham published identified œ7.3bn worth of public expenditure in England’s second city.

The council was the largest spender, responsible for œ3.6bn of the total in 2008-09. Other major contributors included the primary care trusts and Jobcentre Plus, which accounted for œ1.9bn and œ699m respectively.

Meanwhile, Worcestershire has so far identified œ3.5bn of expenditure in its area, although it is still awaiting final details from government departments including the Home Office’s spend on criminal justice and the courts.

The proportion of expenditure managed locally differed markedly from Birmingham.

Worcestershire’s local authorities accounted for just œ1.3bn of the total, a significantly smaller percentage than Birmingham.

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