Spending Review 2025

The LGA's Spending Review 2025 submission outlines the important contribution of councils and how they have a vital role to play in the Government’s reform and growth agenda. But councils can only deliver if we are given the necessary financial stability as Government makes decisions about the nation’s finances.

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Our Spending Review 2025 submission letter to the Chancellor and accompanying annexes set out our new analysis that councils could face a funding gap of more than £8 billion by 2028/29 without adequate additional funding. If current cost and demand trends continue, by the end of 2028/29, these pressures would add £21.4 billion to the cost of delivering council services since 2024/25 – a 29.8 per cent increase in service costs.

Without urgent action in the Spending Review, not only will many councils face impossible choices on what desperately needed services they can provide in the future, but also the opportunity to boost growth and reform may be missed.

Key highlights in our Spending Review submission include:

We will continue to engage across our various channels and with Government and Parliamentarians for a longer-term, sustainable funding environment for local government.

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