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Would you like to download public spending data from ukpublicspending.co.uk, spending data that covers central government and local authority spending? No problem. We have four ways you can download spending data. And more to come.
| simple text | tab-delimited text | simple html <table> without styling | fully styled html <table> |
Here is how to develop your own custom set of UK public spending data. You can use controls on the table below to change the data, including:
In the table below, click the controls to get the data you want.
Go ahead and use the controls on the table below to get the particular spending information you want to download.
| 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. 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. UK or Country/Region: By default, the table shows values for all spending in the United Kingdom. But you can select individual countries by selecting the country dropdown control in the table heading. Pie Chart: You can select a pie chart. You can create a pie chart for central government, local authority, and overall spending/revenue. HM Treasury PESA Year: By default, the table displays planned and outturn public spending in the current HM Treasury PESA. But you can look at previous planned numbers using the dropdown control at the bottom of the table. | ||
| GDP: £38.2 billion(1) | United Kingdom Central Government and Local Authority Spending -5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 1966 +1yr +5yr Amounts in £ billion | Pop: 54.3 million |
| Change View: | default COFOG | Central (2) | General Gov.(2) | Local (2) | Total | charts |
| [+] Pensions | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | |
| [+] Health Care | 0.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 1.4 | | |
| [+] Education | 0.0 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 1.9 | | |
| [+] 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. | 0.0 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 2.5 | | |
| [+] Welfare | 0.0 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 2.7 | | |
| [+] Protection | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | | |
| [+] Transport | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 1.1 | | |
| [+] General Government | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | | |
| [+] Other Spending | 0.0 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 3.1 | | |
| [+] Interest | 0.0 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 1.6 | | |
| [+] Balance | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | | |
| [+] Total Spending | 0.0 | 15.3 | 0.0 | 15.3 | | |
| [+] Public Net Debt | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 31.3 | | |
| Click for Bar Chart or Pie Chart -> | | | | | ||
| Key: Pie Chart: You can select a pie chart. You can create a pie chart for central government, local authority, and overall spending/revenue. (1) Measuring Worth - U.K. GDP (2) National Income and Expenditure 1972, CSO | ||||||
OK. Now you are ready to download your data.
We offer four ways of downloading your data:
Top-line numbers
If you want just the top-line total numbers for overall public spending, federal, state, and local, then here they are:
Use your cursor to copy and paste the following lines into your own content:
source: ukpublicspending.co.uk
Here is a bar chart of the top-line numbers. Right click the cursor to copy or save the image:
Tab-delimited Table
Here is the spending table with columns tab-delimited. You can cut and paste directly into a spreadsheet:
You can copy all the text in the textbox by clicking your cursor in the box. Then press Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C and paste the text into your spreadsheet.
Simple html <table>
Maybe you want to get the data formatted in html for insertion into your content as a table. Here is the data in html with a simple table setup. There are no fancy tags or styles. Just a straight table with <table>, <tr>, and <td> tags.
You can copy all the text in the textbox by clicking your cursor in the box. Then press Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C and paste the html into your content.
Fully styled table
Here in the textbox is the full table with styles but without controls. The styles are built around an id called ukgs342. It shouldnt interfere with your styles.
You can copy all the text in the textbox by clicking your cursor in the box. Then press Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C and paste into your content.
Thats all the download methods for now. But we are planning more.
Perhaps we will even let you load Javascript into your content and allow you to manipulate the controls on the table to allow your visitors to use the full functionality available to users here on ukpublicspending.co.uk.
What do you want from ukpublicspending.co.uk? Email us at chrischantrill@gmail.com
Best wishes from all of us at the ukpublicspending.co.uk team.
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