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Download UK Public Spending Data Series 1692-2026

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.

Download Instructions:

Prepare a suite of data for download by making a selection from one of the dropdown menus below. You can select:

  1. A group of functionally related spending data series
  2. An individual spending data series
You can also remove individual data series that you don’t want.

Select Functional Data Series Group: Select a group of data series to download (you can add individual data series later):

Add Individual Data Series: Select Spending Data Series to add to download (you can add more later):

Change Data Units: You can download data in raw format (i.e., in the units used in the database for each item, or in £ billion, £ million, or percent of GDP.

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£ billion
£ million
percent GDP

Select Fiscal Year: You can select the budget for which you want to download estimated public spending.

Copy and Paste: When you have created the dataset you want then 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.

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

YearGDP(LKTRA) transport (current)
18931.4190
18941.4960
18951.530
18961.5820
18971.6211
18981.7111
18991.8151
19001.8852
19011.9012
19021.913
19031.8854
19041.8875
19051.9566
19062.0347
19072.1088
19082.0088
19092.0519
19102.1389
19112.2249
19122.31910
19132.41711
19142.44512
19152.92912
19163.39313
19174.19813
19184.98115
19195.34718
19205.92323
19214.86429
19224.41928
19234.21727
19244.32826
19254.46927
19264.31128
19274.55929
19284.55930
19294.65131
19304.57532
19314.27932
19324.18632
19334.26131
19344.47827
19354.67927
19364.94427
19375.28828
19385.45430
19395.85131
19407.08331
19418.51234
19429.30238
19439.87541
19449.93543
19459.64345
19469.67747
194710.43250
194811.42555
194912.16859
195012.73761
1993769.1592622
1998997.2472789
19991039.752810
20001095.92860
20011138.382698
20021187.672777
20031256.193229
20041317.464255
20051393.044418
20061470.724598
20071546.084747
20081589.265005
20091582.75004
20101558.15362
20111627.24861
20121672.34440
20131727.53914
20141800.83757
20151879.53446
20161931.53220
20172015.82928
20182099.82985
20192170.22804
20202240.82861
20212085.67035
20222357.84531
20232583.24034
202427494154
20252881.34106
20262993.94106

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Data Sources for 2026:

GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables
Spending: HM Treasury PESA
Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank

> spending data sources for other years

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.

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