Budget

Our Cabinet recommends a budget and Council Tax for the coming year each February. This is done after a public consultation period.

Budget 2023 to 2024

Revenue budget 2023/24 (£000's)
Portfolio	Main services	Net budget	Percentage of total budget
Accessible Housing & Resources	Business Operations, Customer Services, Finance, Revenues & Benefits, Human Resources, ICT, Property & Assets	56,890	12%
Climate Change & Environment	Environment, Street Cleaning & Waste	16,963	4%
Communities	Community Boards, Community Support and Community Safety	7,053	2%
Culture & Leisure	Culture, Sport & Leisure	4,623	1%
Education & Children's Services	Children’s Social Care and Safeguarding, Education and Schools	102,967	23%
Health & Wellbeing	Social Care for Adults & Public Health	184,669	40%
Homelessness & Regulatory Services	Homelessness, Housing, Environmental Health & Cemeteries	9,799	2%
Leader	Policy & Communications, Economic Growth & Regeneration	5,758	1%
Planning & Regeneration	Building Control, Development Management, Planning Enforcement. Strategic Planning	7,064	2%
Transport	Highways, Parking, Buckinghamshire Highways	61,785	14%
Portfolio Budgets total		457,571	100%
Corporate costs	Capital Financing, Treasury Management, Corporate Contingency budgets, Other	55,569
Use of /Contributions to Reserves		(8,801)
Net operating Expenditure		504,339

Capital programme 2023/24 (£000's)
Portfolio	Expenditure	Percentage of total expenditure
Leader	35,606	20.8%
Accessible Housing and Resources	11,813	6.9%
Education and Children’s Services	28,621	16.7%
Climate Change and Environment	9,644	5.6%
Culture and Leisure	6,520	3.8%
Homelessness & Regulatory Services	6,577	3.8%
Planning and Regeneration	18,911	11.1%
Transport	52,430	30.7%
Corporate	750	0.4%
Capital expenditure	170,872	100.0%

At its meeting on 23 February 2022, Full Council approved the Revenue Budget and Capital Programme for 2022/23.

At its meeting on 23 February 2021, Full Council approved the Revenue Budget and Capital Programme for 2021/22.