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Public Spending Details for 1750

Spending details break down public spending by function and level of government. You can also drill down to view more spending detail by clicking the [+] control on each function line.

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.
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GDP: £100.0 million(1)United Kingdom Central Government
and Local Authority Spending
-5yr -1yr     Fiscal Year 1750     +1yr +5yr

Amounts in £ million
Pop: 10.9 million
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[+] Pensions0.00.00.00.0
[+] Health Care0.00.00.00.0
[+] Education0.00.00.00.0
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[+] Drill-down: Click on the [+] to drill down to more detailed numbers on public spending.
Defence
5.70.00.05.7
[+] Welfare0.00.00.00.0
[+] Protection0.00.00.00.0
[+] Transport0.00.00.00.0
[+] General Government0.80.00.00.8
[+] Other Spending0.00.00.00.0
[+] Interest3.20.00.03.2
[+] Balance-2.60.00.0-2.6
[+] Total Spending:  Start chart7.20.00.07.2
[+] Public Net Debt0.00.00.078.0
[+] Current Budget Deficit0.00.00.00.0
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GDP: data from measuringworth.com (but now unsupported)
Spending: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

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The table shows overall public spending—central government and local authorities—in the United Kingdom for the specified fiscal year. Government expenditure totals are aggregated for each major government function.

All outlays for British public spending prior to 2023 are outturn. More recent spending, including future years out to 2026, are estimated outturn, planned, or guesstimated.

Public sector expenditure between 1992 through 2026 is based on Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis (PESA) function or subfunction data published by HM Treasury.

You can use controls on the table to change the year or to drill down to view more detailed spending information. You can also view the spending data as percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

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Notes

Outturn vs. Plan: Public spending data in ukpublicspending.co.uk includes public spending outturns and also future spending in three categories: estimated outturn, planned, and guesstimated. Records of recent spending are more detailed than historical records of earlier times.

Current Budget Deficit: The Office of Budget Responsibility computes the deficit as (current expenditure less current receipts less depreciation). It will not equal the difference between spending and revenue on this site because this site computes total spending by including both current and capital expenditure and ignoring depreciation.

Public Spending Updates: The current numbers are based on HM Treasury’s PESA for 2022. The next update will be made after the PESA 2023 is published in late spring or summer 2023.

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Spending Data Sources

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

Detailed table of spending data sources here.

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 1750:

GDP: data from measuringworth.com (but now unsupported)
Spending: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

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On July 19, 2023, HM Treasury published its Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) for 2023. 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 2023. The update includes outturn spending data for 2022-23, and plans data for 2023-24, and 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 2021-22 and 2022-23 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 2021-22. These are obtained from Chapters 9 and 10 in the PESA document.

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