Money and business · data story

What councils choose

Budgets, outturn, reserves and council tax show different moments in local public finance.

The evidence

What the current releases show

Service spending

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Published local-authority service expenditure across comparable categories.

Budget and outturn

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Planned expenditure compared with the later recorded outturn.

Reserves and borrowing

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Published reserve and borrowing measures kept as separate stocks.

Council-tax allocation

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Service shares in the published council-tax presentation.

Trace the claims

Keep following the evidence

Money and business · 4 evidence sets

Formation, dissolution and the live register answer three different questions about London business.

Employment, claimant rates, resident earnings and rent burden move on different clocks.

The same rent is a very different burden depending on where London pay lands.