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What is the Total UK Public Spending?

In the fiscal year ending in 2023, total UK public spending, including central government and local authorities, was £1,134.1 billion. In the fiscal year ending in 2024, total UK public spending is expected to be £1,145.1 billion.

South West Total Planned* Public Spending

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	Function	-yr 2022 +yr
	Total Spending	£61.7 billion
	Pensions	£0.0 billion
	Health Care	£17.2 billion
	Education	£7.4 billion
	Defence	£0.0 billion
	Welfare	£25.1 billion
		source: outturn

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* Central spending after 2020 is planned. Local spending after 2019 is “guesstimated.”

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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 2022:

GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables
Revenue: OBR March 2018 Economic and fiscal outlook – charts and tables: fiscal
Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank

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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".