Total Place pilots identify 10bn
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 10bn of public expenditure.
A consultancy report for Birmingham published identified 7.3bn worth of public expenditure in England’s second city.
The council was the largest spender, responsible for 3.6bn of the total in 2008-09. Other major contributors included the primary care trusts and Jobcentre Plus, which accounted for 1.9bn and 699m respectively.
Meanwhile, Worcestershire has so far identified 3.5bn 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 1.3bn of the total, a significantly smaller percentage than Birmingham.