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Estimated vs. Actual UK Spending
for Fiscal Year 2011 from HM Treasury PESAs

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TotalCentralGeneralLocal $ billionpercent GDP Spending Units: By default, public spending is displayed in billions of pounds. By using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select millions of pounds, percent of GDP, percent of central government spending, and percent of total spending. 199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009201020112012201320142015 Fiscal Year: The default year displayed is the current HM Treasury fiscal year. But you can select any year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. You can increase or decrease the year using the “yr” text links in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select a year to get close, then select the year you want. full screen
GDP: $1,526.5 billion(1)	UK Government Spending Budgeted vs. Actual
-5yr -1yr   Fiscal Year 2011 in $ billion   +1yr +4yr

				Estimates for FY 2011 in HM Treasury PESAs(2)
Change View: default COFOG				2008 PESA	2009 PESA	2010 PESA	2011 PESA	Actual 2011
[+]	Pensions			118.0	122.4	122.6	n/a	122.1
[+]	Health Care			124.8	122.7	122.4	n/a	121.3
[+]	Education			91.5	88.3	85.7	n/a	90.6
[+]  Bar Chart: Click on a chart icon to display a bar chart. There are chart icons along the base of the table; they create charts to depict the numbers in the chart columns. There are also chart icons along the right edge of the table; they create charts to depict the numbers in the table rows. [+] Drill-down: Click on the [+] to drill down to more detailed numbers on public spending.	Defence			42.0	41.8	45.8	n/a	45.6
[+]	Welfare			97.1	107.6	110.0	n/a	110.3
[+]	Protection			34.9	36.0	34.7	n/a	33.7
[+]	Transport			21.5	23.1	20.3	n/a	22.9
[+]	General Government			21.3	20.2	18.9	n/a	18.9
[+]	Other Spending			96.9	91.1	85.8	n/a	82.2
[+]	Interest			35.0	43.5	43.3	n/a	43.7
[+]	Balance			7.7	1.2	0.1	n/a	-0.0
[+]	Total Spending			690.6	697.9	689.5	n/a	691.2
[+]	Public Net Debt			n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
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Notes

Data Sources: Federal spending from Budget of the United States Government.

For a discussion of the sources of the government spending data used here read How We Got the Data for usgovernmentspending.com.

Budget Updates: The president’s budget is typically published each year in February.

Sources

UK regional GVA
UK Office of National Statistics links to regional GVA (GDP) in UK

2010 June Budget
Advance PR for Chancellor Osborne's June 22 Budget.

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

PDF file of Production of the Public Expenditure by Function Historical Series
HM Treasury reconciliation of changing data series.

UK Local Government Finance Statistics
from UK Department for Communities and Local Government

UK Annual Abstract 2006 (pdf)
UK national stats

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Data Sources for 2011:

GDP: OBR Economic Outlook
Spending: HM Treasury PESA

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We have added UK population data to ukpublicspending.co.uk as follows:

1. Population Estimates for 1901-1981.  From UK Parliament here.
2. Population Estimates for 1981-2010.  From Office for National Statistics here.  Data from Region and Country Profiles - Population and Migration Tables - October 2011
3. Country Population Projection through 2020. From Office for National Statistics here.  Data from Table 1.2 Actual and projected population of the UK by constituent country, 1971-2058
4. Regional Population Projection through 2020. From Office for National Statistics here. Data from Table 1: England and GORs (Government Office Regions)

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