Annual council spending up £10bn
Author: Local Government Chronicle |
English councils’ spending rose by £10bn to £154bn in 2007-08, according to a National Statistics publication.
The annual Local Government Financial Statistics showed three-fifths of gross income in 2007-08 came from central government, a fifth of it from redistributed non-domestic rates.
According to the study which gives the state of council finances on 31 March last year, the biggest share by sectors was:
– education 37%
– social services 17%
– housing 15%
– police 11%
Councils employed 1.8 million full-time employees, with 50% of expenditure going on them.