Burnley Borough Council budget figures
What Burnley Borough Council reported to central government. Every figure below is taken from a published return and converted from the thousands the return states into whole pounds. Nothing is estimated, and where the return carries no figure the section is absent rather than blank.
Shire district, filing as a district. Negative figures mean net income, which is what the return means by them.
2026/27 in summary
Source: Revenue Budget 2026/27, Full Council 3 March 2026 (Appendix 1) .
Approved budget by year
These are cash figures as reported. They are not adjusted for inflation, so a rise between two years is not on its own a rise in what the council does. A figure in brackets is the outturn, what the council actually spent that year, shown alongside the budget it set.
Where the money went in 2026/27
3 service lines are reported as net income rather than net expenditure and so are not drawn above: Revenues & Benefits (-£1.1m), Property (-£1.7m), Earmarked Reserves (-£2.3m).
These are the standard service lines in the published return. They do not add up to net revenue expenditure: financing, movements in reserves and central adjustments sit outside them.
Where the money came from in 2026/27
| Source | Amount | Share of the parts shown | Line in the return |
|---|---|---|---|
| Council tax | -£8,610,000 | n/a | council_tax |
| Business rate baseline | £4,584,000 | 32.8% | business_rate_baseline |
| Renewable energy schemes | £352,000 | 2.5% | renewable_energy_schemes |
| Revenue support grant | £6,908,000 | 49.5% | revenue_support_grant |
| Parish precepts | £223,000 | 1.6% | parish_precepts |
| Collection fund surplus deficit | £5,000 | 0.0% | collection_fund_surplus_deficit |
| Collection fund deficit nndr | -£148,000 | n/a | collection_fund_deficit_nndr |
| Recovery grant | £499,000 | 3.6% | recovery_grant |
| Homelessness prevention grant | £755,000 | 5.4% | homelessness_prevention_grant |
| Income floor protection | £227,000 | 1.6% | income_floor_protection |
| Adjustment support grant | £414,000 | 3.0% | adjustment_support_grant |
These are the funding lines the outturn return carries. They are not the whole of the council's income: fees, charges, ring-fenced grants and income within service lines are outside them, so the shares above are shares of what is shown, not of everything the council received.
Band D, this body's own element
This is the part of a Band D bill that goes to Burnley Borough Council and nothing else. A household's whole bill can also carry amounts for other precepting bodies. Those are separate bodies with separate accounts.
Reserves
| Year | Earmarked at 1 April | Earmarked at 31 March | Unallocated at 1 April | Unallocated at 31 March |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | £11,079,000 | £12,428,000 | £1,379,000 | £1,379,000 |
| 2022/23 | £22,354,000 | £24,782,000 | £1,379,000 | £1,379,000 |
| 2023/24 | £25,484,000 | £25,813,000 | £1,379,000 | £1,379,000 |
| 2024/25 | £25,813,000 | £25,310,000 | £1,379,000 | £1,379,000 |
Earmarked reserves are set aside for a stated purpose. Unallocated reserves are not. A cell reading n/a is one the return carries no figure for.
Council tax collected in year
| Year | Collected in year | Collectable | Uncollected at year end |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019/20 | 94.69% | £45,764,000 | £2,431,000 |
| 2020/21 | 92.84% | £46,104,000 | £3,299,000 |
| 2021/22 | 92.79% | £49,413,000 | £3,564,000 |
| 2022/23 | 93.23% | £52,272,000 | £3,540,000 |
| 2023/24 | 93.74% | £53,603,000 | £3,356,000 |
| 2024/25 | 94.04% | £57,216,000 | £3,412,000 |
This is the share collected during the year the tax was due. Billing authorities go on collecting arrears afterwards, so the amount eventually collected for a year is higher than the figure above.
Where these figures come from
- MHCLG Revenue Account Budget (RA) and council budget papers (GOV.UK / the council) The council's approved revenue budget for the year. Each year on the page names its own return and publication date. Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- MHCLG Revenue Outturn (GOV.UK) The actual outturn, service split, funding, reserves and Band D Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- MHCLG council tax collection rates (QRC4) In-year council tax collection rate Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This page carries no comparison between what Burnley Borough Council budgeted and what it paid out. The published payment files and the net revenue return cover different money over different scopes, so a difference between them measures the difference in scope and nothing about the council.