Total Public Spending in the United Kingdom Central Government and Local Authority -5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2010 +1yr +5yr | |||
Public Pensions | £116 billion | ||
National Health Care | + £117 billion | ||
State Education | + £88 billion | ||
Defence | + £43 billion | ||
Social Security | + £111 billion | ||
State Protection | + £34 billion | ||
Transport | + £23 billion | ||
General Government | + £16 billion | ||
Other Public Services | + £94 billion | ||
Public Sector Interest | + £31 billion | ||
Total Spending | = £673 billion | ||
For more detail click here |
Expenditure data since 1983 comes from HM Treasury’s Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis reports.
Detailed table of spending data sources here.
Gross Domestic Product data comes from measuringworth.com.
Central government spending data begins in 1692.
Local authority spending data begins in 1868.
GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables
Spending: HM Treasury PESA
Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank
> spending data sources for other years
On March 16, 2024 we updated UK revenue forecast data for 2023-24 to 2026-27 from the Office of Budget Responsibility's March 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook report in a zip file labeled "March 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook - charts and tables (zip file)" and a spreadsheet file named "Annex_A_charts_and_tables_March_2024.xlsx" and Table A.5: Current Receipts in tab "TA.5".
2022-23 Forecast | March 2023 £ billion | March 2024 £ billion |
Central Government | £951.9 | £987.4 |
Local Authorities | £68.1 | £670.6 |
Total UK Revenue | £1,020.0 | £1,058.0 |
On March 16, 2024 we updated UK deficit forecast data for 2023-24 to 2028-29 from the Office of Budget Responsibility's March 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook report Table 6.5 Components of Net Borrowing in tab "6.5" in a zip file labeled "March 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook - detailed forecast tables (zip file)" and a spreadsheet file named "Detailed_forecast_tables_Aggregates_March_2024.xlsx".
Get spending chart.
Download spending table.
Download spending data series.
Review data sources.
ukpublicspending.co.uk was designed and executed by:
Christopher Chantrill.
Report bugs here.
Budget 2012: 50p tax rate scrapped and allowance raised
Personal allowance now close to £10,000.
Autumn Statement 2011
Chancellor George Osborne introduces six more years of pain.
Budget 2011: George Osborne set for 8bn pound windfall
Treasury revenue up, so no spending cuts in Budget 2011
> archive