Lancashire County Council is responsible for delivering many services including:

• 462 primary schools;
• 81 secondary schools;
• providing support for vulnerable children and older people;
• maintaining 6,929 kilometres (4,306 miles) of road;
• disposing of 664,000 tonnes of waste; and
• providing a stock of 1.6 million library books

In undertaking these services it has an annual budget for 2008/09 of £683 million.