How your council tax is spent 2024-25

£100 a month looks like this...

• Schools - £34
• Social care - £37
• Roads, transport and recycling - £12
• Corporate costs e.g.council tax reduction scheme (Council tax reduction scheme pays for part of the Council Tax bill on behalf of those households on a low income), levies, external audit, borrowing costs - £6
• Property, planning and public protection - £2
• Finance services - £2
• Housing and community developments - £2
• Economy and Digital services - £2
• Legal and democratic services - £1
• Transformation and communication - £1
• Workforce and organisational development - £1

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