Council Tax 2024-2025

What you will pay in 2024-25

There is a 4.99 per cent increase in the Council Tax for 2024-25 set by Southampton City Council.

Your Council Tax bill is administered by Southampton City Council, but not all of it pays for council services.

Example of band D charge

For a band D home paying a total of £2,156.99 in 2024-25, £1,812.69 pays for council services, £261.46 pays for policing in Southampton, and £82.84 for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Authority service.

For a band D home, this will mean an overall increase of £98.63 a year, or £1.90 per week. The Government allows councils to implement up to an additional two per cent increase in Council Tax specifically to fund Social Care pressures (Social Care ‘Precept’). This two per cent increase can be in addition to any Council Tax rise planned within the current referendum framework which allows Council Tax to be increased by up to 3 per cent.  

There is a two per cent increase for the Social Care Precept and 2.99 per cent increase in the general Council Tax set by Southampton City Council for 2024-25.

How your Council Tax is calculated (Band D)

*Adult Social Care funding

The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government made an offer to adult social care authorities. ("Adult social care authorities" are local authorities which have functions under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014). The offer was the option of an adult social care authority being able to charge an additional "precept" on its council tax without holding a referendum, to assist the authority in meeting its expenditure on adult social care from the financial year 2016-17. It was originally made in respect of the financial years up to and including 2019-20. If the Secretary of State chooses to renew this offer in respect of a particular financial year, this is subject to the approval of the House of Commons.

The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities offered the option to charge an adult social care precept of up to 2.0% for 2024-25 which was approved by Parliament.

The adult social care precept is a cumulative figure of the amount charged in the years 2016-17 to 2024-25. There is a 2.0% increase in the adult social care precept for Southampton City Council for 2024-25.

Proportion of every £1 spent

 

Service	Proportion of every £1 spent
Children & Learning	£0.20
Corporate Services	£0.10
Place	£0.16
Strategy & Performance and Chief Executive's Office	£0.01
Wellbeing & Housing	£0.45
Capital financing, central costs and contributions to and from reserves and balances	£0.08
TOTAL	£1.00

This table shows the 2024-25 General Fund account. It shows what we will need to spend to deliver services.

2023-24 Net Cost £M	Expenditure on	2024-25 Net Cost £M
57.40	Children & Learning	61.83
25.78	Corporate Services	30.78
41.29	Place	51.97
3.16	Strategy & Performance and Chief Executive's Office	4.07
93.74	Wellbeing & Housing	104.26
221.37	Service total	252.91
0.08	Capital financing, central costs and use of reserves	23.68
-	Contribution to/(draw from) balances	1.93
-	Exceptional Financial Support	(39.28)
221.45	Net Revenue Expenditure	239.24
(105.68)	Funding	(117.81)
115.77	Council Tax Requirement	121.43

How much we spend

The council's net budget for the 2024-25 financial year is £239.2 million; £121.4 million of this will be met from Council Tax.

The council's gross expenditure on General Fund services for the 2024-25 financial year is £595.2 million; (£556.7 million for 2023-24). £356 million of this is met from service grants, fees and charges.

Where the remaining funding comes from	Amount
Southampton City Council - Council Tax (including Adult Social Care precept)	£121.4 million
Business Rates	£51.2 million
Other Government grants	£64.4 million
Collection Fund surplus	£2.3 million