Multiyear Download of Government Spending

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Use the table below to change the data series

You can display a maximum of five data series at once.

Spending Units: By default, public spending is displayed in billions of pounds. By using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select £ bln (2003), and percent of GDP.

Chart Title: You can create a title for your chart. Use the title text box to enter a title and click the button to the right of the text field.

View: There are two ways to view the spending data. The default view breaks down spending into functions. There is also a COFOG view that categorizes spending using the UN standard methodology.

HM PESA Year: By default, the chart displays planned spending in the current HM Treasury Budget as published in the current Public Expenditure Statistical Analyaes. But you can look at previous budgeted numbers using the dropdown control.

Data Range

Start Year: You can select any start year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select a start year to get close, then select the start year you want.

End Year: You can select any end year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select an end year to get close, then select the end year you want.

Category	Sub-category	Central Gov.	Gen. Gov.	Local Auth.	Total
Data Series: You can select up to five data series to display on your chart. Click on a checkbox to add or delete a data series from the chart. Once you get to five data series you will have to delete a series before you can add one. Click a [+] expand control to drill down to more detailed data series.						X

If you’d like to create your own custom download of spending data you should use the table above to make your selections.

Select the year range: Select the start year and the end year you want by selecting the years you want in the two year dropdown boxes.
Select spending items: Just select the spending item you want from the dropdown control. If you select from the < select > you will add another data series to your chart. Up to 5 data series are allowed at once. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart.
Select units: You can select the display in billions of nominal (i.e. inflated) dollars, billions of real (i.e. year 2000) dollars, or as percent of GDP.

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Copy and Paste: Here is the dataset you have selected. If you’d like the data for analysis, just copy the tab-delimited text in the textbox below (click cursor in text box, then press ctrl-A then press ctrl-C) and paste it into your spreadsheet.

Year GDP- Total Spending-total 1981 253.154 116.1 1982 277.198 128.0 1983 302.973 132.7 1984 324.633 140.5 1985 355.269 150.9 1986 381.782 158.6 1987 421.559 164.6 1988 470.748 173.6 1989 517.075 179.9 1990 560.887 200.9 1991 589.739 218.2 1992 614.776 236.2 1993 645.5 260.6 1994 684.067 276.5 1995 723.08 298.9 1996 768.905 309.4 1997 815.881 318.3 1998 865.71 324.9 1999 911.945 328.1 2000 958.931 339.3 2001 1003.3 361.8 2002 1055.79 385.3 2003 1118.24 415.2 2004 1184.3 451.4 2005 1233.98 487.8 2006 1303.92 502.2 2007 1343.75 543.3 2008 1419.55 575.4 2009 1439 631.3 2010 1411 654.7 2011 1461 690.3

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Below is a formatted version of the data.

Public Spending Chart
Fiscal Years 1981 to 2011
Year	GDP	Total Spending-total £ billion
1981	253.154	116.1
1982	277.198	128.0
1983	302.973	132.7
1984	324.633	140.5
1985	355.269	150.9
1986	381.782	158.6
1987	421.559	164.6
1988	470.748	173.6
1989	517.075	179.9
1990	560.887	200.9
1991	589.739	218.2
1992	614.776	236.2
1993	645.5	260.6
1994	684.067	276.5
1995	723.08	298.9
1996	768.905	309.4
1997	815.881	318.3
1998	865.71	324.9
1999	911.945	328.1
2000	958.931	339.3
2001	1003.3	361.8
2002	1055.79	385.3
2003	1118.24	415.2
2004	1184.3	451.4
2005	1233.98	487.8
2006	1303.92	502.2
2007	1343.75	543.3
2008	1419.55	575.4
2009	1439	631.3
2010	1411	654.7
2011	1461	690.3

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Headline

Pre-Budget 2009 Released

On December 9, 2009, HM Treasury released the Pre-Budget Report 2009. This release updates GDP, spending, and borrowing projections, as follows:

HM Treasury Pre-Budget 2009
Amounts in £ billion

	Budget 2009	Pre- Budget 2009
Nom. GDP 2009	1,439	1,435
Nom. GDP 2010	1,412	1,409
Spending 2010	608	607
Borrowing 2010	175	178
Net Debt 2010	792	799

The numbers shown in the tables at ukpublicspending.co.uk continue to be the numbers released in PESA 2009.

News

Budget News

Pre-Budget Report 2009
Chancellor Alistair Darling will deliver Pre-Budget report 6 Dec 2009.

Osborne: Brown misled MPs on spending
includes links to both pages of HM Treasury leak on Budget 2009 out years

HM Treasury Leaked Spending Document
as published in the Evening Standard

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Sources

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

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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