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Council report pack · FOI / briefing attachment
Warwickshire
County council · E10000031
Pack compiled from the committed snapshot dates below. Print this page to stamp the time on this line for the PDF.
- Council snapshot 13 Sept 2026 · generated 13 Sept 2026
- Parliament snapshot 13 Sept 2026 (MP bridge only)
- Geography: England upper-tier and unitary authorities plus London boroughs (ONS CTYUA, December 2025). Lower-tier shire districts are not primary rows.
Outstanding borrowing
£236.2m
£236,225,000 · as of 30 Jun 2026
Debt per resident
£367
Using population of 644,021
Population
644,021
ONS mid-year · 30 Jun 2025
Recorded crime rate
61.0 per 1,000
39,265 offences · Year ending March 2026
Control
Reform UK
REF min
GE 2024 overlapping seats
6
Plurality: Labour
Identity
Warwickshire is a county council in the England CTYUA / unitary / London borough snapshot. ONS code E10000031. Shire districts are not primary rows.
Outstanding borrowing
Warwickshire reported £236,225,000 of outstanding borrowing as at 30 Jun 2026 (Q1 2026–27 (as at 30 June 2026)). That is total outstanding borrowing (all sources, including loans from other local authorities). About £367 per resident.
This is a stock: how much external borrowing the council still owed lenders on the MHCLG live-table date — not the year’s budget deficit or an in-year overspend.
Figures converted from £ thousand as published. This is a stock of outstanding borrowing, not the annual deficit.
Population
644,021 usual residents (Mid-2025 (2023 local authority boundaries)), as of 30 Jun 2025.
Recorded crime
39,265 police-recorded offences excluding fraud, a rate of 61.0 per 1,000.
Police force / area: Warwickshire.
Police-recorded offences excluding fraud, published by ONS / Home Office for Community Safety Partnership (CSP) areas, shown as a rate per 1,000 residents where published.
Who runs the council
REF min on a council of 57 seats.
- Labour 3
- Conservative 8
- Liberal Democrats 14
- Green 6
- Reform UK 19
- Other 7
REF min; 57 seats (Lab 3, Con 8, LD 14, Green 6, Reform 19, other 7)
GE 2024 overlap and MP bridge
Labour won 4 of 6 overlapping constituency/constituencies Parliamentary constituencies do not match council boundaries exactly.
| Constituency | Sitting MP | Party | Join |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenilworth and SouthamE14001309 | Sir Jeremy Wright | Conservative | Matched on constituency name |
| North Warwickshire and BedworthE14001400 | Rachel Taylor | Labour | Matched on constituency name |
| NuneatonE14001413 | Jodie Gosling | Labour | Matched on constituency name |
| RugbyE14001453 | John Slinger | Labour | Matched on constituency name |
| Stratford-on-AvonE14001526 | Manuela Perteghella | Liberal Democrat | Matched on constituency name |
| Warwick and LeamingtonE14001566 | Matt Western | Labour | Matched on constituency name |
Joined on constituency name against the committed Members snapshot. ONS PCON codes are shown; the Members API has no ONS codes, so a code-level join is not available. Name-only joins are labelled. Full MP packs: Sir Jeremy Wright, Rachel Taylor, Jodie Gosling, John Slinger, Manuela Perteghella, Matt Western.
Sources and as-of dates
Full URLs are printed so this page can be saved as a PDF and attached without losing the originals. Dates are the as-of on the committed snapshot, not the moment a publisher last edited a page.
| Topic | Source | URL | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borrowing | MHCLG — Borrowing and investment live table, Q1 2026 to 2027Q1 2026–27 (as at 30 June 2026) | https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-local-government-finance | 30 Jun 2026 |
| Population | ONS — Estimates of the population for England and Wales, mid-2025Mid-2025 (2023 local authority boundaries) | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/estimatesofthepopulationforenglandandwales | 30 Jun 2025 |
| Crime | ONS / Home Office — Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables (Tables C2 and C4)Year ending March 2026 | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables | 31 Mar 2026 |
| Control / composition | Open Council Data UK — GB council compositions 2016–20262026 composition snapshot (shortly after the May local elections / by-elections) | https://www.opencouncildata.co.uk/history.php | 1 May 2026 |
| Local election / composition note | Open Council Data UK council compositions and councillor file, 2026 | https://www.opencouncildata.co.uk/productsAndDownloads.php | 1 May 2026 |
| GE 2024 overlap | House of Commons Library — General election 2024 results (CBP-10009) | https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10009/ | 4 Jul 2024 |
| Sitting MPs (bridge) | UK Parliament Members API (committed snapshot) | https://members-api.parliament.uk/ | 13 Sept 2026 |
Methodology pointers (local Watchtower pages): Council sources and definitions · Parliament methodology · How money registers work. Read those before treating a figure as complete.