We show the cost of running our services in our Income and Expenditure Account. This account shows you the costs in 2009/10 of the Council’s services and the amount left to be financed from local and national tax income. Gross expenditure is the amount we paid out and net expenditure is after deducting amounts we received in the way of rents, fees and charges etc.
| What did we spend the money on? | Gross expenditure
2009/10
£'000 | Net expenditure
2009/10
£'000 |
Central Services to the public
Corporate management, members | 11,404 | 2,913 |
Culture & Related Services
Museums, parks, sports centres | 7,169 | 5,437 |
Environmental Services
Refuse collection, street cleaning, recycling, health | 8,612 | 6,186 |
Planning & Development
Development control, planning appeals, conservation | 5,006 | 3,188 |
Transport and Car Park Services
Transport concessions, car parks, roadside amenities | 3,057 | 930 |
| Housing Services | | |
| Council Housing | 41,520 | 18,326 |
| Homelessness, home renovation grants, housing benefit administration | 28,756 | 1,889 |
Corporate & Democratic Costs
Corporate management, members costs | 3,046 | 2,844 |
| Net Cost of Services | 103,551 | 46,448 |
| Payments to Parish Councils | | 1,891 |
| Trading income from Markets, Property and Off Street Parking | | (454) |
| Net Interest receivable | | (2,012) |
| Adjustments for difference between accounting requirements and the legislation for council tax charging | (28,867) | |
| Assets charges (depreciation, impairments etc) | 429 | |
| Pension accounting entries | 531 | |
| Housing Revenue Account balance | 797 | |
| Other | | (27,110) |
| Cost of local services met by local and national taxes | | 18,763 |
The Income and Expenditure Account in the Statement of Accounts has been prepared using the rules for producing statutory accounts similar to those of commercial companies. There are other statutory rules for local government accounts relating to eg depreciation and pension charges and an adjustment is made for these. After making the statutory adjustments the cost attributable to council tax payers is £21.8 million. (The statement above has included some netting off of figures for simplification).