Definitions for "Revenue Expenditure"
Expenditure incurred for the normal functioning of the government departments and various other services such as interest charges on debt incurred by the government.
Spending on the day to day running expenses of the Authority and Force (eg salaries and wages).
in a general sense, expenditure on recurring items including the running of services and capital financing. A particular definition of 'revenue expenditure' is that derived from Gross Revenue Expenditure by deducting spending met by grants outside aggregate external finance (AEF) (including rent allowance grant, mandatory student awards grant and community charge benefit grant) and income from licence fees etc. Alternatively, it is derived from net current expenditure by adding net capital charges, capital expenditure charged to the revenue account and non-current items (mainly gross expenditure on community charge benefit).