Where your money goes (2021/22)
Where the Council gets its money (2021/22)
| Government funding | £162.2m |
| Council tax payers | £135.9m |
| Total | £298.1m |
Where the Council spends its money (2021/22)
| Borough services | £266.4 |
| Greater London Authority* | £30.1m |
| Environment Agency (flood defence)** | £0.2m |
| Other levies and special expenses | £1.4m |
| Total | £298.1m |
*The Council collects the Greater London Authority (GLA) precept of on behalf of the GLA from Council Tax payers. More details here.
**The Environment Agency has statutory responsibilities including the management of river defences and flooding and it generates part of its income through a local levy on boroughs.
Services on which money is spent (2021/22)
| Childrens Services | £89.0m |
| Health and Adults | £99.1m |
| Regeneration, Enterprise and Skills | £6.9m |
| Communities and Environment | £45.0m |
| Housing and Safer Communities | £17.2m |
| Finance | £9.1m |
| Precepts and other levies | £31.7m |
| Total | £298.1 |
See a full breakdown of annual budgets
How government funding has changed
There is a national funding shortage for adult social care. Authorities have been able to charge an additional precept on their council tax of 13% for the period 2016/17 to 2021/22. We have our raised precept by 13% over this period.