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East Sussex County Council

2026/27 view

East Sussex County Council · ONS E10000011

Financial position as at 2026/27 Q1 quarter end

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COUNCIL AT A GLANCE

Who runs the council and its current position

34/ 100
COUNCILMETRICS FINANCIAL HEALTH SCORE

Significant pressure

Compared only with county council councils using central government returns.

21 councils in peer group Rank 15 of 21 Medium confidence 2024/25 outturn · 2026/27 Q1 debt How this is calculated
Reserves cover0
Liquidity50
Debt direction90
YEAR-ON-YEAR CONTEXT Change from the previous reported period Each measure uses its own official reporting timetable.
Net debt £132.61m 2026/27 Q1 vs 2025/26 Q4
−£50.98m 27.8%
Service expenditure £997.87m 2024/25 vs 2023/24
+£61.81m 6.6%
Unallocated reserves £10.00m 2024/25 vs 2023/24
£0.00 0.0%
FIVE-YEAR FINANCIAL TREND

How this council's finances have changed

Official annual outturn. Each line uses its own scale so direction remains easy to read.

Through 2024/25
Service expenditure £997.87m
36.8%
2020/21: £729.53m 2021/22: £748.94m 2022/23: £780.48m 2023/24: £936.06m 2024/25: £997.87m
Net revenue expenditure £538.18m
49.1%
2020/21: £361.07m 2021/22: £389.09m 2022/23: £413.58m 2023/24: £529.33m 2024/25: £538.18m
Council Tax requirement £371.00m
23.3%
2020/21: £300.87m 2021/22: £310.36m 2022/23: £327.72m 2023/24: £348.79m 2024/25: £371.00m
Unallocated reserves £10.00m
0.0%
2020/21: £10.00m 2021/22: £10.00m 2022/23: £10.00m 2023/24: £10.00m 2024/25: £10.00m
COUNCILMETRICS COMMUNITY SCORE Share your experience 0 of 25 responses collected before results are published
Score this council
Political controlNot yet recordedAdministration not identified
Council leaderNot identifiedParty not identified
Resident populationAwaiting dataNo population series imported
Latest net debt£132.61m2026/27 Q1 quarter end
ROADS & HIGHWAYS

How well are the roads being maintained?

Official DfT condition data, showing the share of each road class requiring maintenance investigation.

2024/25
Unclassified roads—%requiring maintenance investigation
A roads & motorways5.0%requiring maintenance investigation+1.0 pts vs 2023/24
Rank 80 / 149peer median 4.0%
B & C roads6.0%requiring maintenance investigation+1.0 pts vs 2023/24
Rank 68 / 133peer median 5.0%
A roads & motorways5.0% red
Good 64.0%Amber 30.0%Red 5.0%
B & C roads6.0% red
Good 66.0%Amber 28.0%Red 6.0%
ROAD CONDITION TREND

Red condition over time

Lower is better
2015/16: 5.0%2016/17: 5.0%2017/18: 4.0%2018/19: 5.0%2019/20: 5.0%2020/21: 4.0%2021/22: 5.0%2022/23: 5.0%2023/24: 4.0%2024/25: 5.0%2015/16: 6.0%2016/17: 6.0%2017/18: 7.0%2018/19: 7.0%2019/20: 5.0%2020/21: 4.0%2021/22: 6.0%2022/23: 6.0%2023/24: 5.0%2024/25: 6.0%2015/16: 22.0%2016/17: 19.0%2017/18: 14.0%2018/19: 9.0%2019/20: 14.0%2020/21: 14.0%2021/22: 19.0%2022/23: 13.0%2023/24: 17.0%
2015/162024/25
A roadsB & C roadsUnclassified
2024/25 MAINTENANCE ACTIVITY

Network treated during the year

A roads1.7%358 km network
B, C & unclassified0.5%2,920 km network
Strengthening0.0%Resurfacing1.7%Preservation0.0%
Official DfT road condition statistics · Lower red percentages indicate fewer roads requiring investigation.View source
WASTE & RECYCLING

What happens to household waste?

Official Defra measures for East Sussex County Council, with like-for-like comparison against disposal authorities.

2024/25
42.1%recycled
Household recycling rate

Recycling rate fell

0.7 percentage points vs 2023/24
15 of 21 peer authorities Peer median 44.8%
Residual waste534.6 kgper household+5.6 kg year on year
Waste collected430.9 kgper resident−1.4 kg year on year
Household waste243,790tonnes collected102,656 tonnes recycled
WHERE HOUSEHOLD WASTE WENT

Recycled versus residual waste

102,656 t recycled, composted or reused 141,134 t not recycled
RECYCLING RATE TREND

10 years of official data

42.1%
2015/16: 41.6%2016/17: 43.6%2017/18: 42.8%2018/19: 43.3%2019/20: 42.8%2020/21: 41.5%2021/22: 43.3%2022/23: 41.1%2023/24: 42.8%2024/25: 42.1%
2015/162024/25
Official Defra waste statistics · Annual local-authority return · Figures may not sum exactly because of published rounding.View source
Published expenditure£0.00No spending file imported
Revenue budget£0.00Not imported
Reported overspend£0.00Not imported outturn
Contracts00 active
Identified suppliers0Normalised entities
PUBLIC HEALTH

How healthy are people in East Sussex County Council?

Life expectancy, early mortality, lifestyle and prevention measures from the Public Health Outcomes Framework.

OHID · latest available
LIFE EXPECTANCY

How does East Sussex County Council compare with England?

Latest published life expectancy at birth, shown against the matching England figure.

2025
Male 80.3 years
0.3 years higher than England
England 80.0
Female 84.4 years
0.6 years higher than England
England 83.8
HEALTHY LIFE EXPECTANCY

Years expected in good health

Healthy life expectancy is considerably different from total life expectancy: it estimates how many years are expected to be lived in good health.

Male
59.2
1.7 year s below England
England 60.9
Female
59.9
1.4 year s below England
England 61.3
2022 - 24
EARLY MORTALITY

Deaths and premature mortality

Age-standardised mortality rates and the latest published suicide rate.

Preventable mortality 2024
141.3 per 100,000
England 145.8
Similar
Cardiovascular disease 2025
65.0 per 100,000
England 71.5
Similar
Cancer 2025
111.2 per 100,000
England 114.6
Similar
Liver disease 2025
17.0 per 100,000
England 19.4
Similar
Respiratory disease 2025
23.9 per 100,000
England 31.5
Better
Suicide rate 2022 - 24
12.6 per 100,000
England 10.9
Similar
HEALTH & LIFESTYLE

Behaviours and health risks

Smoking, excess weight, physical activity and alcohol-related harm.

Adult smoking 2024
East Sussex County Council 11.2% England 10.4%
Similar
Adults overweight or obese 2024/25
East Sussex County Council 63.3% England 68.0%
Similar
Physically active adults 2024/25
East Sussex County Council 69.4% England 64.6%
Similar
Alcohol-related admissions 2023/24
East Sussex County Council 499.3 England 504.1
Rate per 100,000 Similar
CHILDREN & PREVENTION

Prevention and healthy development

Child health, physical activity, vaccination and screening coverage.

Reception overweight or obese 2024/25
22.8%
East Sussex County Council 22.8% England 23.5%
Council compared with England Similar
Year 6 overweight or obese 2024/25
32.4%
East Sussex County Council 32.4% England 36.2%
Council compared with England Better
Physically active children 2024/25
54.0%
East Sussex County Council 54.0% England 49.1%
Council compared with England Better
MMR two-dose coverage 2024/25
85.9%
East Sussex County Council 85.9% England 83.7%
Council compared with England Better
Bowel cancer screening 2025
75.3%
East Sussex County Council 75.3% England 72.9%
Council compared with England Better
WIDER HEALTH

Other measures affecting population health

Selected wider indicators that help describe health and wellbeing across the area.

Dementia diagnosis rate 2026
61.1 per 100
England 66.3 per 100 Similar
Air pollution mortality 2024
4.8%
England 5.3% Not compared
Latest available measures can cover different reporting periods. England comparison is the classification published with the OHID measure. Public Health Outcomes Framework
AIR QUALITY

How clean is the air?

Long-term particulate pollution across the council area, alongside measurements from local UK-AIR monitoring stations.

Defra 2,024
POPULATION-WEIGHTED ANNUAL MEAN

Fine particulate matter

6.5 µg/m³

PM2.5 · 2,024

Human-related sources 5.9 µg/m³
Other sources 0.5 µg/m³
Modelled population-weighted annual concentration across the local authority area. This is not a live sensor reading.
LONG-TERM TREND

PM2.5 over time

43.9%
11.5 5.2
2011: 11.50 µg/m³ 2012: 10.19 µg/m³ 2013: 10.56 µg/m³ 2014: 9.89 µg/m³ 2015: 8.92 µg/m³ 2016: 10.44 µg/m³ 2017: 10.11 µg/m³ 2018: 9.67 µg/m³ 2019: 8.94 µg/m³ 2020: 7.36 µg/m³ 2021: 6.28 µg/m³ 2022: 5.20 µg/m³ 2023: 6.17 µg/m³ 2024: 6.46 µg/m³
2011 2024
Since 2011 ↓ 43.9%
5 years ↓ 27.8%
10 years ↓ 34.7%
CURRENT MONITORING

Latest station measurement

UK-AIR
No active UK-AIR monitoring station is currently mapped to this council.
HEALTH IMPACT

Particulate air pollution

4.8% of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution
2024 Not compared

This OHID measure estimates the mortality burden associated with particulate air pollution. It is a health-impact measure, not a pollution concentration.

Annual PM2.5 is Defra Pollution Climate Mapping data. Monitoring readings are station-specific UK-AIR measurements and may be provisional. Defra source
HOUSING LICENSING

HMOs and property licensing

Coverage not assessedNational HMO explorer
Licensed HMOsAwaiting registerOnly licensed properties will be counted
Register accessNot assessedNo register record available
Identifiable HMO expenditureNot identifiableNot separately described in published transactions
Inspection and enforcement dataAwaiting dataNo activity source imported yet
Coverage note

A licensed HMO register has not yet been located for this council. CouncilMetrics does not estimate HMO expenditure from broad housing or social-care descriptions.

FINANCE

How this council raises and spends money

Comparable official outturn for 2024/25, reported to central government.

MHCLG official outturn
Total service expenditure
£997.87m 2024/25 actual outturn
Net revenue expenditure
£538.18m 2024/25 actual outturn
Council Tax requirement
£371.00m 2024/25 actual outturn
Unallocated reserves
£10.00m 2024/25 actual outturn
2024/25 SERVICE SPENDING

Where the money was spent

Net current expenditure after service income.

Actual outturn
Education Gross £390.57m · Income £23.78m
£366.79m
Adult social care Gross £420.64m · Income £102.13m
£318.51m
Children's social care Gross £169.51m · Income £13.30m
£156.20m
Highways and transport Gross £89.13m · Income £46.63m
£42.49m
Environmental and regulatory services Gross £63.39m · Income £23.60m
£39.79m
Public health Gross £37.76m · Income £683.0k
£37.07m
Central services Gross £91.17m · Income £76.72m
£14.44m
Housing Gross £12.14m · Income £1.27m
£10.87m
Culture and related services Gross £12.43m · Income £3.65m
£8.78m
Planning and development Gross £4.28m · Income £1.37m
£2.91m
CORE FUNDING

Selected funding sources

Major financing lines in the central return.

Council Tax requirement£371.00m
Retained business rates£101.75m
Revenue Support Grant£4.35m
UNALLOCATED RESERVES

Financial buffer

General unallocated reserves during the year.

Opening £10.00m
Closing £10.00m
£0.00 increase during 2024/25
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Revenue Outturn RS and RSX · values shown in pounds Official dataset
BORROWING AND INVESTMENTS

Balance-sheet position

A point-in-time view of debt and liquid investments at the end of 2026/27 Q1.

MHCLG quarterly return
Outstanding borrowing
£198.14m 2026/27 Q1 quarter end
Investments and cash
£65.54m 2026/27 Q1 quarter end
Net debt
£132.61m 2026/27 Q1 quarter end
QUARTERLY TREND

Borrowing, investments and net debt

2020/21 Q1 to 2026/27 Q1.

£50.98m quarterly reduction
2020/21 Q12021/22 Q32023/24 Q12024/25 Q32026/27 Q1
Latest quarterly movement −£50.98m −27.8%
Change across the series +£134.74m Net debt since 2020/21 Q1
What changed?

Net debt reduced during the latest quarter as the balance between borrowing and investments improved.

BORROWING COMPOSITION

Where the borrowing sits

PWLB, other longer-term borrowing and short-term borrowing.

2026/27 Q1
Public Works Loan Board£198.14m
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment live table · 2026/27 Q1 · values shown in pounds Official dataset
COUNCIL TAX & COLLECTION

How much council tax remains unpaid?

Council tax collection, outstanding arrears and write-offs reported to central government.

Council tax collection figures are not available for this authority. Some councils, including county councils, do not collect council tax directly. Collection is administered by the relevant billing authorities.

SPENDING

Published directorate expenditure

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CONTRACTS

Largest contracts

Explore all 0 contracts
ContractSupplierStatusEnd dateOriginal value
SUPPLIERS

Largest supplier exposure

Dated transactions
SupplierPaymentsPublished expenditure
PROVENANCE

Source documents

37 imported
DocumentDatasetPeriodStatusOfficial source
DfT road condition statistics — East Sussexdft local road condition2007/08–2024/25importedOpen
Defra local authority waste statistics — East Sussex County Councildefra local authority waste2010/11–2024/25importedOpen
MHCLG Revenue Outturn Service Summary 2023/24 — East Sussex CCmhclg revenue outturn rsx2023/24importedOpen
MHCLG Revenue Outturn Summary 2023/24 — East Sussex CCmhclg revenue outturn rs2023/24importedOpen
MHCLG Revenue Outturn Service Summary 2022/23 — East Sussexmhclg revenue outturn rsx2022/23importedOpen
MHCLG Revenue Outturn Summary 2022/23 — East Sussexmhclg revenue outturn rs2022/23importedOpen
MHCLG Revenue Outturn Service Summary 2021/22 — East Sussexmhclg revenue outturn rsx2021/22importedOpen
MHCLG Revenue Outturn Summary 2021/22 — East Sussexmhclg revenue outturn rs2021/22importedOpen
MHCLG Revenue Outturn Service Summary 2020/21 — East Sussex CCmhclg revenue outturn rsx2020/21importedOpen
MHCLG Revenue Outturn Summary 2020/21 — East Sussex CCmhclg revenue outturn rs2020/21importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2025/26 Q4 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2025/26 Q4importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2025/26 Q3 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2025/26 Q3importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2025/26 Q2 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2025/26 Q2importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2025/26 Q1 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2025/26 Q1importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2024/25 Q4 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2024/25 Q4importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2024/25 Q3 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2024/25 Q3importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2024/25 Q2 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2024/25 Q2importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2024/25 Q1 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2024/25 Q1importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2023/24 Q4 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2023/24 Q4importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2023/24 Q3 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2023/24 Q3importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2023/24 Q2 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2023/24 Q2importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2023/24 Q1 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2023/24 Q1importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2022/23 Q4 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2022/23 Q4importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2022/23 Q3 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2022/23 Q3importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2022/23 Q2 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2022/23 Q2importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2022/23 Q1 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2022/23 Q1importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2021/22 Q4 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2021/22 Q4importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2021/22 Q3 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2021/22 Q3importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2021/22 Q2 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2021/22 Q2importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2021/22 Q1 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2021/22 Q1importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2020/21 Q4 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2020/21 Q4importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2020/21 Q3 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2020/21 Q3importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2020/21 Q2 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2020/21 Q2importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2020/21 Q1 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2020/21 Q1importedOpen
MHCLG Borrowing and Investment 2026/27 Q1 — East Sussexmhclg borrowing investment2026/27 Q1importedOpen
MHCLG Revenue Outturn Service Summary 2024/25 — East Sussex CCmhclg revenue outturn rsx2024/25importedOpen
MHCLG Revenue Outturn Summary 2024/25 — East Sussex CCmhclg revenue outturn rs2024/25importedOpen
How to read these figures and the Financial Health Score

Budget summaries and financial positions retain the reporting year and assurance status of their original source. Draft or unaudited values are labelled separately from audited outturn figures. The Financial Health Score uses reserves cover, net debt per resident, liquidity and quarterly debt direction from central MHCLG returns. Each component is converted to a percentile among councils of the same authority type; available components are weighted 35%, 30%, 20% and 15% respectively. A score is published only when at least three components covering 65% of the weighting are available. It is a comparative financial indicator, not an assessment of service quality or political performance.