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6,088,950 residents · Chair: Xavier Bertrand

Hauts-de-France

€3.8 billion spent in 2025.

€628 per resident · Mainland regions: €563

What Hauts-de-France spends, by policy

  • Trains, coaches and transport38%€1.45B
  • High schools, training and apprenticeships30%€1.13B
  • Administration and shared services11%€438.9M
  • Loans: repayments and interest9%€333.6M
  • Economy and business support5%€178.2M
  • Culture, sport and youth4%€163.4M
The 4 other items (3%)
  • Town planning and housing2%€83.6M
  • Environment1%€27.4M
  • Health and social care< 1%€4.9M
  • Not assigned to a policy< 1%€12M

Source: 2025 accounts of Hauts-de-France (DGFiP), by public policy.

Suppliers and recipients

The same €3.82B, by recipient.

  • Grants and contributions30%€1.16B
  • Companies and contractors20%€763.4M

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  • Joint bodies and syndicates16%€602.5M
  • Staff11%€430.2M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Banks and lenders9%€333.6M
  • Compulsory contributions6%€221.4M
  • Benefits paid to people5%€210M
  • Other3%€98.5M

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Hauts-de-France (DGFiP).

Contracts state a maximum amount for their whole term, often several years. That amount differs from what was paid. Purchases, services and works paid to companies by the region in 2025: €763.4M (its accounts).

308 contracts signed in 2025 · €513.8M before tax

What the region paid in 2025 for these kinds of purchase, from its accounts

  • Maintenance and repairsall suppliers together · contracts in the list: Engie Énergie Services (Agence Nord Pas de Calais), Idex Énergies, Dalkiapaid €19.8M

The accounts say how much was paid for each kind of purchase, not to which company. A purchase paid by another public body (joint order, shared service) is not in them.

Why this total differs from the €763.4M of purchases, services and works paid to companies

These are the amounts of the contracts signed in the year, over their whole length, not what was paid. The money paid in a year also goes to older contracts and to purchases too small to be published (under €40,000 excl. VAT). For a framework agreement, the amount is a ceiling.

Investment and works

€174.7M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €29 per resident. Mainland regions: €47.

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Largest works contracted since 2023, among published contracts. Amounts planned at signature, often spread over several years.

On top of that, €881.2M paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Hauts-de-France (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €3.43B · borrowing: €387M · spending: €3.82B.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (VAT share, fuel tax, vehicle registration)60%€2.29B
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…17%€645.2M
  • State and other contributions12%€450.3M
  • Users and rents< 1%€2M
  • Other receipts1%€37.4M
  • Borrowing10%€387M
  • Drawn from reserves< 1%€7.3M

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€630 of debt per resident

Mainland regions: €560

12.5 years of savings to repay it

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Mainland regions”: median of the 13 mainland regions.

Who is part of Hauts-de-France

Understanding these figures

Who does what

The region pays for high schools, regional trains (TER) and intercity coaches, school transport outside towns, aid to businesses, vocational training and apprenticeships.

Official table of responsibilities (July 2025)

Why the levels are not added up

The same euro can appear twice: once when a region or a département pays a grant, again when the town spends it. Each page shows its own body’s spending.

Where these figures come from

Spending: the accounts of the main budget published by the DGFiP, by public policy. Revenue, debt and taxes: OFGL. Contracts: published contract data (DECP), amounts planned at signing.

Elected officials and staff of Hauts-de-France: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Hauts-de-France · Sources and method

Accounts 2025 (DGFiP, OFGL). The method · See the source