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Total Public Spending in the United Kingdom Central Government and Local Authority -5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 1885 +1yr +5yr
	Public Pensions	£0 million
	National Health Care	+ £2 million
	State Education	+ £10 million
	Defence	+ £31 million
	Social Security	+ £7 million
	State Protection	+ £11 million
	Transport	+ £10 million
	General Government	+ £5 million
	Other Public Services	+ £28 million
	Public Sector Interest	+ £39 million
	Total Spending	= £147 million
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Spending Data Sources

Expenditure data since 1983 comes from HM Treasury’s Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis reports.

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Gross Domestic Product data comes from measuringworth.com.

Central government spending data begins in 1692.

Local authority spending data begins in 1868.

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Data Sources for 1885:

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

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UK Revenue and Deficit Forecast -- March 2024

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".

**UK Government Revenue Forecast**
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".