Budget
Our Cabinet recommends a budget and Council Tax for the coming year each February. This is done after a public consultation period.
Budget 2024 to 2025
Buckinghamshire Council has a total budget of £538 million for 2024/25.
Our Budget and Medium Term Financial Plan 2024/25 to 2026/27 and Capital Programme 2024/25 to 2027/28 were approved on Wednesday 21 February 2024.
Revenue budget
In this year’s budget there is additional investment in the revenue budgets for Children’s Social Care of £24.2 million and Adult Social Care of £23.7 million to address the continued increase in demand, cost and complexity in these areas.
There is also investment of £6.9 million in Home to School Transport.
| Portfolio | Main services | Net budget | Percentage of total budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accessible Housing & Resources | Business Operations, Customer Services, Finance, Revenues & Benefits, Human Resources, ICT, Property & Assets | 54,124 | 11% |
| Climate Change & Environment | Environment, Street Cleaning & Waste | 24,391 | 5% |
| Communities | Community Boards, Community Support and Community Safety | 6,592 | 1% |
| Culture & Leisure | Culture, Sport & Leisure | 3,942 | 1% |
| Education & Children's Services | Children’s Social Care and Safeguarding, Education and Schools | 116,378 | 23% |
| Health & Wellbeing | Social Care for Adults & Public Health | 197,390 | 40% |
| Homelessness & Regulatory Services | Homelessness, Housing, Environmental Health & Cemeteries | 10,013 | 2% |
| Leader | Policy & Communications, Economic Growth & Regeneration | 4,635 | 1% |
| Planning & Regeneration | Building Control, Development Management, Planning Enforcement. Strategic Planning | 7,144 | 1% |
| Transport | Highways, Parking, Transport for Bucks | 71,841 | 14% |
| Portfolio Budgets total | 496,450 | 100% | |
| Corporate costs | Capital Financing, Treasury Management, Corporate Contingency budgets, Other | 49,054 | |
| Use of / Contributions to Reserves | (7,476) | ||
| Net operating Expenditure | 538,028 |
| Portfolio | Expenditure | Percentage of total expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| Leader | 86,747 | 34.9% |
| Climate Change & Environment | 25,522 | 10.3% |
| Culture & Leisure | 7,939 | 3.2% |
| Communities | 868 | 0.3% |
| Transport | 48,281 | 19.4% |
| Homelessness & Regulatory Services | 11,896 | 4.8% |
| Education and Children’s Services | 31,927 | 12.8% |
| Accessible Housing & Resources | 9,623 | 3.9% |
| Planning and Regeneration | 24,558 | 9.9% |
| Corporate | 1,388 | 0.6% |
| Capital expenditure | 248,751 | 100% |
Over the next 4 years, we'll be investing:
- £189 million on strategic transport and infrastructure, including Buckinghamshire’s significant Housing Infrastructure projects:
- £93.3 million on South East Aylesbury Link Road
- £45.5 million on Aylesbury Eastern Link Road
- £13.4 million on Stoke Mandeville Relief Road
- £10.8 million on land assembly
- £168.3 million on schools, and school improvement projects
- £137.4 million on strategic highways maintenance, including:
- £63.4 million on major highway resurfacing schemes
- £17.7 million on plane and patch (smaller planned and reactive repairs)
- £12.2 million on bridge maintenance
- £12 million on road reconstruction
- £8.4 million on footway repairs
- £8.2 million on drainage to help reduce flooding on our roads
- £5.9 million on street lighting repairs, replacement and maintenance
- £37.1 million to support economic growth and regeneration, particularly in our town centres
- £26.1 million to support housing and homelessness, including affordable housing action plans and disabled facilities grants
- £34 million investment in waste, primarily on vehicle replacement and household recycling facilities
- £14.7 million on flood prevention and the climate change strategy
- £11.4 million in Children's Social Care to increase our own residential provision for looked after children
Budget 2023 to 2024
At its meeting on 22 February 2023, Full Council approved the Revenue Budget and Capital Programme for 2023/24.
Budget 2022 to 2023
At its meeting on 23 February 2022, Full Council approved the Revenue Budget and Capital Programme for 2022/23.
Budget 2021 to 2022
At its meeting on 23 February 2021, Full Council approved the Revenue Budget and Capital Programme for 2021/22.