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. 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.
	United Kingdom Central Government and Local Authority Spending -5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2007 +1yr +4yr Amounts in £ billion	GDP: £1,343.8 billion(1)

Change View:	default COFOG	Central (2)	General Gov.(2)	Local (2)	Total	charts
[+] Pensions		93.2	0.0	0.0	93.2
[+] Health Care		94.1	0.0	0.3	94.5
[+] Education		24.1	0.0	46.9	71.0
[+] 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		36.5	0.0	0.1	36.5
[+] Welfare		47.1	0.0	39.8	86.9
[+] Protection		14.8	0.0	15.5	30.3
[+] Transport		12.0	0.0	8.1	20.1
[+] General Government		12.9	0.0	10.1	23.0
[+] Other Spending		42.0	0.0	30.1	72.1
[+] Interest		27.6	0.0	0.5	28.1
[+] Balance		-1.2	0.0	-5.2	-6.4
[+] Total Spending		403.0	0.0	146.2	549.2
[+] Public Net Debt		0.0	0.0	0.0	602.0
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GLOBAL CRISIS won’t show up in these numbers until HM Treasury’s Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis 2009 is published in April 2009.

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 2007 are outturn. More recent spending, including future years out to 2011, are estimated outturn, planned, or guesstimated.

Public sector expenditure between 1992 through 2011 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).

Click the button at the right of each line of the table to display a bar chart of public spending in Britain. Click a button at the base of each column for a bar chart or pie chart. You can right click on the chart image to copy and paste it into your own content. Click the image to close the chart display.

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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.

Public Spending Updates: The current numbers are based on HM Treasury’s PESA of 2008. The next update will be made after the PESA 2009 is published in April or May 2009.

PESA 2009 Released

On June 19, 2009, HM Treasury released Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2009. This release updates outturn data for 2007-08, estimated outturn data for 2008-09, and plan data for 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Normally, HM Treasury would provide plan data for year 2011-12, the third out-year. But this year HM Treasury has not provided this data.

ukpublicspending.co.uk has updated its 2008 data with the new outturn data. It has updated 2009 data with the new estimated outturn data and has updated 2010 and 2011 data with plan data.

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