Download UK Public Spending Data Series 1692-2026

raw data

You can download any of the raw data series used to compile the public spending data in ukpublicspending.co.uk. You select the data series you want and then copy-paste the tab delimited data from a textbox on this page into your spreadsheet.

Warning: Be careful about using raw data. The raw data series are not “curated,” meaning that you cannot be sure if the data series applies for a specific year and a specific function. A data series typically does not extend the whole length of UK history. Check out multiyear download if you want full-length curated data series.

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Year GDP (CKSOP) Social protection 1909 2 2 1910 2 7 1911 2 8 1912 2 10 1913 2 14 1914 2 16 1915 3 17 1916 3 15 1917 4 17 1918 5 16 1919 5 17 1920 6 27 1921 5 59 1922 4 59 1923 4 49 1924 4 47 1925 4 51 1926 4 52 1927 5 59 1928 5 57 1929 5 59 1930 5 67 1931 4 83 1932 4 93 1933 4 118 1934 4 114 1935 5 113 1936 5 121 1937 5 120 1938 5 119 1939 6 120 1940 7 119 1941 9 115 1942 9 116 1943 10 124 1944 10 131 1945 10 134 1946 10 138 1947 10 207

Here is a formatted version of the data you have selected.

Year	GDP	(CKSOP) Social protection

1909	2.051	2
1910	2.138	7
1911	2.224	8
1912	2.319	10
1913	2.417	14
1914	2.445	16
1915	2.929	17
1916	3.393	15
1917	4.198	17
1918	4.981	16
1919	5.347	17
1920	5.923	27
1921	4.864	59
1922	4.419	59
1923	4.217	49
1924	4.328	47
1925	4.469	51
1926	4.311	52
1927	4.559	59
1928	4.559	57
1929	4.651	59
1930	4.575	67
1931	4.279	83
1932	4.186	93
1933	4.261	118
1934	4.478	114
1935	4.679	113
1936	4.944	121
1937	5.288	120
1938	5.454	119
1939	5.851	120
1940	7.083	119
1941	8.512	115
1942	9.302	116
1943	9.875	124
1944	9.935	131
1945	9.643	134
1946	9.677	138
1947	10.432	207

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Data Sources for 1947:

GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Spending: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

> spending data sources for other years

PESA 2025 Update

On July 23, 2025, HM Treasury published its Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) for 2025. ukpublicspending.co.uk uses the PESA 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 2025. The update includes outturn spending data for 2023-24, and plans data for 2024-25. 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 future Local Authority spending, ukpublicspending.co.uk provides "guesstimates" instead. This is done by extending the percentage increase in spending between 2023-24 and 2024-25 for each sub-function for the plans year. It is assumed that local authority spending reductions will not carry through to plans years.

Country and Region spending has been updated up to 2023-24. These are obtained from Chapters 9 and 10 in the PESA document.