HM TREASURY BUDGET DATA
HM TREASURY PESAS
FEATURED SPENDING
GOV. SPENDING
BY YEAR
2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981
1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971
1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961
1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951
1950 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941
1940 1939 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 1931
1930 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 1924 1923 1922 1921
1920 1919 1918 1917 1916 1915 1914 1913 1912 1911
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United Kingdom Central Government
and Local Authority Spending
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Amounts in £ billionGDP: £1,365.4
billion
Change View: default COFOG Central General
Gov.Local Total clk
[+] Pensions 99.8 0.0 0.0 99.8 
[+] Health Care 104.2 0.0 0.4 104.6
[+] Education 26.8 0.0 49.8 76.7
[+] Defence 38.4 0.0 0.1 38.5
[+] Welfare 49.0 0.0 41.2 90.2
[+] Protection 16.2 0.0 16.2 32.4
[+] Transport 10.7 0.0 9.1 19.8
[+] General Government 13.2 0.0 12.3 25.5
[+] Other Spending 42.7 0.0 32.3 75.0
[+] Interest 29.9 0.0 0.8 30.7
[+] Balance -0.9 0.0 -6.4 -7.3
[+] Total Spending 430.1 0.0 155.7 585.9
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Key: est. outturn — using HM Treasury PESA
The table shows overall public spending—central government and local authorities—in the United Kingdom for the specified fiscal year. Expenditure totals are aggregated for each major government function.
All outlays for British public spending prior to 2007 are outturn. More recent spending, including future years out to 2011, are estimated outturn, planned, or guesstimated.
Public sector expenditure between 1992 through 2011 is based on Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis (PESA) function or subfunction data published by HM Treasury.
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Notes
Outturn vs. Plan: Public spending data in ukpublicspending.co.uk includes public spending outturns and also future spending in three categories: estimated outturn, planned, and guesstimated. Records of recent spending are more detailed than historical records of earlier times.
Public Spending Updates: The current numbers are based on HM Treasury’s PESA of 2008. The next update will be made after the PESA 2009 is published in early 2009.
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The goal at ukpublicspending.co.uk is to present consistent data series at the functional level of public sector spending (central government, local authorities, and public corporations) from the present going back to the mid 20th century. But the UK government doesn’t maintain consistent spending data series going back that far, so right now there are some lumps and bumps in the data. It’s going to take a bit of tweaking to adapt the raw UK government data series to provide an approximation to the ideal of consistent, reliable data series, but we are working on it, and we will document what we have done.
A Century of Change
stats for UK (and sources)
Changes to the Public Expenditure by Function Series Technical Note (10 March 2004)
adjustments to conform to UN COFOG
Info on Historical Public Spending Data in UK
discusses changes in data series
National Statistics Online - Product - Annual Abstract of Statistics
UK annual statistical report
National Statistics Online - Time Series Data
main page for time series UK data
National Statistics: index
from HM Treasury. Statistics at basis of spending data
PDF file of Production of the Public Expenditure by Function Historical Series
HM Treasury reconciliation of changing data series.
Public Expenditure - Statistical Analyses 1998-99
functions back to 1983, totals back to 1963
Public Expenditure Statistics Publications Index
gives UK spending back to 83-84
UK 1999 Treasury Review of Public Sector and Economic Cycles
'joined-up" stuff
UK Annual Abstract 2006 (pdf)
UK national stats
UK Local Government Finance Statistics
from UK Department for Communities and Local Government
UK Official Documents - Publications by Title
includes PESAs
United Kingdom National Accounts - The Blue Book
contents page - goes back to 1985 in pdf
Education
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State
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