How your council tax is spent 2025-26

How your council tax is spent 2025-26

£100 a month looks like this...

• Social Services and Wellbeing - £39
• Schools - £34
• Roads, transport and recycling - £12
• Corporate Costs (e.g. council tax reduction scheme, levies, external audit, borrowing costs) * - £5
• Financial, Governance, Legal and Workforce Services - £4
• Property, planning and public protection - £3
• Digital Services - £2
• Housing & Economy Services - £1

*Council tax reduction scheme pays for part of the Council Tax bill on behalf of those households on a low income.

The cost of borrowing which is used to fund the capital programme for things like building new schools, council housing and highways infrastructure.