Worthing Council

Shire district (E07000229)

Spending in 2024/25

£316,905,023 Paid out, after refunds
£151,421,940 Net of payments to other public bodies
5,478 Payments published
£500 Councils must publish payments above this

Records held for 2024/25 to 2025/26, of which 2 complete financial years. Figures shown are for 2024/25, the most recent year that reconciles against the published revenue outturn. The check is made after money this body passes to other councils, police and fire authorities, and to central government as the business rates share, has been taken out: a precept, a levy or a rates share is collected on another authority's behalf rather than spent here. Payments to the health service, to colleges, to pension funds and to HM Revenue and Customs are not taken out, because those are things this body bought or owed. Both figures are shown.

This covers what Worthing Council publishes above its threshold, which is a part of what it spends, not all of it. Wages and payments below the threshold are not in it.

Largest suppliers in 2024/25

Payments to named individuals are counted in the total above but never listed here. A linked supplier has a cross council page showing what every council this site holds published about paying it, which is a lower bound and never a total.

Largest spending categories in 2024/25

  • Finance£309.9m
  • Housing Homelessness & Prevention£1.5m
  • Operations and Sustainability£1.2m
  • Place and Economy£1.1m
  • Culture£817k
  • Regenerative Development£593k
  • Grants - Director for Place£435k
  • Legal and Democratic Services£385k

Categories are the council's own labels, and the largest few only. They do not add up to the total.

Month by month in 2024/25

  • Apr 2024£25.0m
  • May 2024£28.3m
  • Jun 2024£33.8m
  • Jul 2024£32.3m
  • Aug 2024£9.8m
  • Sep 2024£26.3m
  • Oct 2024£29.7m
  • Nov 2024£23.3m
  • Dec 2024£32.8m
  • Jan 2025£22.6m
  • Feb 2025£11.6m
  • Mar 2025£41.5m

What we hold

Spending records held for each financial year, and whether each year reconciles
Financial yearMonths heldRecordsStatus
2025/2612 of 123,975Total does not sit near the budget
2024/2512 of 125,478Reconciled

Check these figures against Worthing Council's own published data

Publication

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Behind by one quarter, as held here Latest payment held here: 2026-03-30

Latest payment held here: 2026-03-30. Under paragraph 27 a payment dated 2026-03-30 should have been published by 2026-04-30. We have not confirmed whether the council has published since we last read its files.

Part 2 of the Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires spending over £500 to be published quarterly, and not later than one month after the quarter it covers. This council publishes payments over £500, the amount paragraph 28 names.

This site last read Worthing Council's files on 2026-08-30. The council's spending page .

How every council stands against the quarterly rule

Budget figures

What Worthing Council reported to central government: net revenue expenditure over time, the split by service, where the money came from, its own Band D element and its reserves.

Budget figures for Worthing Council

Budget figures and published payments describe different money over different scopes, and this site never compares one against the other.

Councils in the same place

Worthing Council is a district council. The upper-tier services in the same area, social care, schools and roads, are run by West Sussex County Council, which keeps separate accounts. The two are never added together on this site.

The same place on the sister sites

Every payment

Every payment this council published will appear here.

This section is not built yet. Nothing is hidden behind it and there is no figure it is standing in for.

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