Budget
Our Cabinet recommends a budget and Council Tax for the coming year each February. This is done after a public consultation period.
Budget 2025 to 2026
Buckinghamshire Council has a total budget of £577 million for 2025/26.
Our Medium-Term Financial Plan 2025/26 to 2027/28 and Capital Programme 2025/26 to 2028/29 were approved on Wednesday 26 February 2025.
Read the Medium Term Financial Plan and Capital Programme document.
Revenue budget
In this year’s budget there is additional investment in the revenue budgets for Children’s Social Care of £30.4 million and Adult Social Care of £27.6 million to address the continued increase in demand, cost and complexity in these areas.
There is also investment of £7.8 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 | 59,673 | 11% |
| Climate Change & Environment | Environment, Street Cleaning & Waste | 25,315 | 5% |
| Communities | Community Boards, Community Support and Community Safety | 6,473 | 1% |
| Culture & Leisure | Culture, Sport & Leisure | 3,933 | 1% |
| Education & Children's Services | Children’s Social Care and Safeguarding, Education and Schools | 124,302 | 24% |
| Health & Wellbeing | Social Care for Adults & Public Health | 215,009 | 41% |
| Homelessness & Regulatory Services | Homelessness, Housing, Environmental Health & Cemeteries | 8,169 | 2% |
| Leader | Policy & Communications, Economic Growth & Regeneration | 4,185 | 1% |
| Planning & Regeneration | Building Control, Development Management, Planning Enforcement. Strategic Planning | 6,120 | 1% |
| Transport | Highways, Parking, Transport for Bucks | 71,638 | 14% |
| Portfolio Budgets total | 524,817 | 100% | |
| Corporate costs | Capital Financing, Treasury Management, Corporate Contingency budgets, Other | 46,358 | |
| Contributions to Reserves | 6,005 | ||
| Net operating Expenditure | 577,180 |
| Portfolio | Expenditure | Percentage of total expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| Leader | 63,624 | 30.7% |
| Climate Change & Environment | 12,827 | 6.2% |
| Culture & Leisure | 3,364 | 1.6% |
| Communities | 468 | 0.2% |
| Transport | 58,361 | 28.2% |
| Homelessness & Regulatory Services | 9,387 | 4.5% |
| Health & Wellbeing | 640 | 0.3% |
| Education and Children’s Services | 40,465 | 19.5% |
| Accessible Housing & Resources | 4,955 | 2.4% |
| Planning and Regeneration | 11,940 | 5.8% |
| Corporate | 1,000 | 0.5% |
| Capital expenditure | 207,031 | 100.0% |
Over the next 4 years, we'll be investing:
- £182.5 million on schools, and school improvement projects
- £157.3 million on strategic highways maintenance, including:
- £73.9 million on major highway resurfacing schemes
- £21.4 million on plane and patch (smaller planned and reactive repairs)
- £13.7 million on bridge maintenance
- £12 million on road reconstruction
- £10.7m on highways drainage
- £8.4 million on footway repairs
- £5.8 million on road safety
- £5.5 million on street lighting repairs, replacement and maintenance
- £130.1 million on strategic infrastructure, including Buckinghamshire’s significant Housing Infrastructure projects:
- £73 million on South-East Aylesbury Link Road
- £15.5 million on Aylesbury Eastern Link Road
- £9.1 million on Stoke Mandeville Relief Road
- £8.5 million on Princes Risborough Relief Road
- £10.8 million on land assembly
- £30.4 million investment in waste, primarily on vehicle replacement and household recycling facilities
- £24.8 million to support housing and homelessness, including delivery of affordable housing, temporary accommodation and disabled facilities grants
- £22.7 million to support economic growth and regeneration, particularly in our town centres
- £10.7 million on flood prevention and the climate change strategy
- £8.1 million investment in culture, sport and leisure projects
- £6.3 million in Children's Social Care to increase our own residential provision for looked after children
Budget 2024 to 2025
At its meeting on 21 February 2024, Full Council approved the Revenue Budget and Capital Programme for 2024/25.
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.