Where your Council Tax goes

How your weekly council tax payment (based on band A) contributes to providing services (2021 - 2022)

  • Education - £2.59
  • Highways, roads, transport and street lighting - 90p
  • Adult social care - £8.99
  • Children's social care - £4.56
  • Housing - -1p
  • Cultural services (including libraries) - £1
  • Planning and development - -2p
  • Public health - £2.34
  • Environmental services (including street lighting) - 58p
  • Refuse collection and disposal - £1.74
  • Other services - £-2.35
  • Integrated Transport Authority - £1.39

How your weekly council tax payment (based on band A) contributes to providing services (2020 - 2021)

  • Education - £2.39
  • Highways, roads, transport and street lighting - £0.92
  • Adult social care - £8.19
  • Children's social care - £4.32 
  • Housing - £0.01
  • Cultural services (including libraries) - £0.85
  • Planning and development - £-0.01
  • Public health - £2.32
  • Environmental services (including street lighting) - £0.59
  • Refuse collection and disposal - £1.59
  • Other services - £-1.66
  • Integrated Transport Authority - £1.38

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