Southend-on-Sea Council budget figures
What Southend-on-Sea 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.
Unitary authority, filing as a unitary. Negative figures mean net income, which is what the return means by them.
2024/25 in summary
Net revenue expenditure 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.
Where the money went in 2024/25
These are the standard service lines every council reports against. 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 2024/25
| Source | Amount | Share of the parts shown | Line in the return |
|---|---|---|---|
| Council tax | £103,962,000 | 64.8% | COUNCIL TAX REQUIREMENT |
| Business rates retained | £47,786,000 | 29.8% | Retained income from Rate Retention Scheme |
| Revenue support grant | £7,590,000 | 4.7% | Revenue Support Grant |
| Collection fund surplus or deficit | £1,000,000 | 0.6% | Collection fund surplus/deficits for council tax |
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 council's own element
This is the part of a Band D bill that goes to Southend-on-Sea Council and nothing else. A household's whole bill also carries the police, the fire service, the parish where there is one, and the county council where this is a district. 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 | £69,272,000 | £65,089,000 | £11,000,000 | £11,000,000 |
| 2022/23 | £84,776,000 | £63,326,000 | £11,000,000 | £11,000,000 |
| 2023/24 | £63,516,000 | £61,345,000 | £11,000,000 | £10,000,000 |
| 2024/25 | £61,156,000 | £50,833,000 | £10,000,000 | £11,000,000 |
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.
Where these figures come from
- MHCLG Revenue Outturn (GOV.UK) Net revenue expenditure, service split, funding, reserves, Band D Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This page carries no comparison between what Southend-on-Sea 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.