Today (03/07/2019) the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government released the latest numbers from Local Government. Overall we saw grant income from central government continue to fall from 58 per cent to 48 per cent of total local authority income, with an increase in other forms of income making up some of the gap.

Sales, fees and charges related to highways and transport alone have increased to £2,235 million, £172 million more than five years ago and for planning and development reached over £900 million, £202 million more than five years ago. (Table 2.3a)

Revenue spending has fallen in the same period with councils budgeting to spend £4,251 million on highways and transport in 2018-19, £544 million less than in 2013-14 (Table 3.2a). Capital expenditure has stayed roughly level in the same period at £6,606 million in 2017-18 (Table 4.1b)

Local government is collectively one of the largest employers in England, employing just over 1.2 million full time equivalent staff (FTEs). In 2017-18, local government employee expenditure accounted for 42 per cent of all local government service expenditure (gross of income) and was the single largest area of spending for local government. Highways, roads and transport services accounted for 1.3 billion of the overall employee expenditure.

For further information you can see the full data at this link