Councils' spending on adult social care, England
Official statistics
How much England's councils spend on adult social care in each financial year since 2005 to 2006 – their gross current expenditure, in cash and in real terms – from the Department of Health and Social Care's adult social care finance report.
Cash terms
£31.64bn
2025/26 · up 7.7% on 2024/25 in cash terms and up 4.1% in real terms
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:24 UTC- Cash terms
- Real terms
Source: Department of Health and Social Care. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
21 periods, newest first
| Period | Cash terms | Real terms |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | £31.64bn | £31.64bn |
| 2024/25 | £29.39bn | £30.41bn |
| 2023/24 | £27.06bn | £29.14bn |
| 2022/23 | £23.69bn | £26.85bn |
| 2021/22 | £21.96bn | £26.63bn |
| 2020/21 | £21.24bn | £25.82bn |
| 2019/20 | £19.65bn | £25.14bn |
| 2018/19 | £18.74bn | £24.60bn |
| 2017/18 | £17.93bn | £24.08bn |
| 2016/17 | £17.53bn | £23.83bn |
| 2015/16 | £16.97bn | £23.54bn |
| 2014/15 | £17.04bn | £23.81bn |
| 2013/14 | £17.25bn | £24.43bn |
| 2012/13 | £17.16bn | £24.81bn |
| 2011/12 | £17.23bn | £25.34bn |
| 2010/11 | £17.04bn | £25.60bn |
| 2009/10 | £16.81bn | £25.68bn |
| 2008/09 | £16.08bn | £24.88bn |
| 2007/08 | £15.27bn | £24.52bn |
| 2006/07 | £14.90bn | £24.39bn |
| 2005/06 | £14.36bn | £24.21bn |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/adult-social-care-finance-statistics-england
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 8 November 2026, 13:07 UTC
- Raw files fetched
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Verification
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:24 UTC Run at 8 November 2026, 13:24 UTC; 42 of 42 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Department of Health and Social Care; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-08T13:07:03Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 42 of 42 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's accreditation and changes match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 42 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 42 of 42 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's accreditation and changes match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2026-03-31 ended 222 days before retrieval (limit 700), from Adult social care finance report, England: 2025 to 2026 - data tables |
| Pass | Table 3 adds up | 20 of 20 cases of the latest two years' councils add up to their region and regions to England, within each figure's own rounding |
| Pass | Table 3 gives Table 4's England | 2 of 2 cases of England's gross current expenditure in Table 3 are Table 4's cash terms, within each figure's own rounding |
| Pass | Table 4's changes are its own years' | 4 of 4 cases of Table 4's percentage changes come from its years' figures within 1e-12 (4 exactly) |
| Pass | Table 4's real terms are at the latest year's prices | 1 of 1 cases of the latest year's real terms are its cash terms |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/adult-social-care-finance-statistics-england – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Councils' gross current expenditure on adult social care in England, in £ thousands, in each financial year, as Table 4 of the Department of Health and Social Care's adult social care finance report gives it from the adult social care finance return (ASC-FR), which England's councils with adult social services responsibilities complete.
- Cash terms are each year's spending as it was; real terms are adjusted for inflation, by HM Treasury's GDP deflators as Table 4 says, so the latest year's figure is the same in both. Table 4 gives the years before the latest to the nearest £1,000.
- Table 3 of the same file gives each council's and region's spending in the latest two years; the hub checks that they add up to England's and that England's are Table 4's.