# Council budget versus outturn

> What each London authority budgeted for services in 2024–25 beside its final outturn.

- Category: Money
- Cadence: annual
- Status: Published on a annual cadence.
- Dataset key: `budget-versus-outturn`
- Source: [MHCLG](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-revenue-outturn-multi-year-data-set)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/budget-versus-outturn](https://londongraph.com/g/budget-versus-outturn)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/budget-versus-outturn](https://londongraph.com/data/budget-versus-outturn)

## Methodology

MHCLG 2024–25 Revenue Account Budget total service expenditure compared with the compatible Revenue Outturn RSX total. Both are nominal £ thousands. A variance is not automatically overspending: accounting transfers, demand and grant treatment can change between budget and final return.

## Visualisations

- [Comparison](https://londongraph.com/g/budget-versus-outturn): Compare published service budget and outturn values by authority.
- [Budget vs outturn](https://londongraph.com/g/budget-versus-outturn?view=scatter): Place every authority against the equality relationship.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/budget-versus-outturn?view=distribution): Inspect the published budget and outturn values around their quartiles.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.