The amount of revenue reserves held by the London borough of Enfield in each of the last 10 years is shown in the following table. Information for England has been published in Statistical Releases and editions of ‘Local Government Financial Statistics’.
Level of revenue reserves Date Schools Other earmarked Unallocated At 1 April 1997 4,954 15,040 28,253 1998 4,512 23,144 20,039 1999 5,026 25,747 9,202 2000 6,367 19,615 0 2001 8,047 14,740 5,754 2002 8,085 15,583 9,486 2003 8,035 16,980 12,352 2004 10,163 18,857 12,418 2005 13,322 34,693 11,500 2006 13,835 45,546 10,507 At 31 March 2007 11,376 44,926 10,111 Notes: 1. Figures are as supplied by the local authority to Communities and Local Government. 2. Use of the schools reserves is not controlled by the council, but by the individual schools to which the reserves belong. 3. Comparisons across years may not be valid due to changing local authority responsibilities. Source: Communities and Local Government Revenue Outturn (RO) returns