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Total Public Spending
in the United Kingdom
Central Government and Local Authority
-5yr -1yr   Fiscal Year 2014   +1yr
 Public Pensions   £145 billion 
 National Health Care   + £130 billion 
 State Education   + £99 billion 
 Defence   + £45 billion 
 Social Security   + £115 billion 
 State Protection   + £31 billion 
 Transport   + £19 billion 
 General Government   + £17 billion 
 Other Public Services   + £49 billion 
 Public Sector Interest   + £46 billion 
 Balance   + £26 billion 
 Total Spending   = £722 billion 
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What is the spending data; where is it from?

  • Central government spending data begins in 1692.
  • Local authority spending data begins in 1868.
  • Recent spending data is from official government sources. Spending data prior to 1950 is from published academic research.
  • Gross Domestic Product data comes from measuringworth.com.

Sources

UK regional GVA
UK Office of National Statistics links to regional GVA (GDP) in UK

2010 June Budget
Advance PR for Chancellor Osborne's June 22 Budget.

United Nations Statistics Division - Classifications Registry
UN COFOG Codes

Measuring Worth - GDP Series for US and UK
includes GDP and chained GDP for US; GDP and chained GDP for UK

A Century of Change
stats for UK (and sources)

United Kingdom National Accounts - The Blue Book
contents page - goes back to 1985 in pdf

Changes to the Public Expenditure by Function Series Technical Note (10 March 2004)
adjustments to conform to UN COFOG

PDF file of Production of the Public Expenditure by Function Historical Series
HM Treasury reconciliation of changing data series.

UK Local Government Finance Statistics
from UK Department for Communities and Local Government

UK Annual Abstract 2006 (pdf)
UK national stats

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Data Sources for 2014:

GDP: OBR Economic Outlook
Spending: HM Treasury PESA

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July 17 Update -- PESA 2012

On July 13, 2012, HM Treasury published its Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) for 2012. ukpublicspending.co.uk uses PESA's tables of public spending at the "sub-function" level as its major data source for UK public spending.
ukpublicspending.co.uk has now updated its spending tables using data from PESA 2012. The update includes outturn spending data for 2011-12, and plans data for 2013-14 and 2012-15. ukpublicspending.co.uk uses PESA's Table 6.4 for Central Government expenditure, Table 7.4 for Local Authority expenditure, and Table 8.3 for Public Corporation capital expenditure.
Since HM Treasury does not provide plans estimates for Local Authority spending, ukpublicspending.co.uk provides "guesstimates" instead. This is done by extending the percentage increase in spending between 2010-11 and 2011-12 for each sub-function for the plans year.
Country and Region spending has been updated up to 2010-11.
Also included are the GDP forecasts from Table D-6 in Budget 2012 and GDP forecasts from the Economic and fiscal outlook – March 2012 from the Office of Budget Responsibility.

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