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What is the Total UK Public Spending?

In the fiscal year ending in 2024, total UK public spending, including central government and local authorities, was £1,145.1 billion. In the fiscal year ending in 2025, total UK public spending is expected to be £1,155.9 billion.

Central Planned* Public Spending

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	Function	-yr 2025 +yr
	Total Spending	£935.0 billion
	Pensions	£217.2 billion
	Health Care	£220.3 billion
	Education	£56.5 billion
	Defence	£61.5 billion
	Welfare	£100.5 billion
		source: planned

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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 2025:

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 Public Revenue Outturn - March 2024

On April 23, 2024 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its annual Public Sector Finances report. On May 6, 2024 we updated ukpublicrevenue.co.uk with the new public finance data.

**UK Government Revenue**
£ billion	2023-24 forecast	2023-24 actual
Central Government	£1,035.1	£1,101.0
Local Authorities	£66.9	£63.3
Total UK Revenue	£1,102.0	£1,073.3

Revenue outturn data comes from the Office for National Statistics' March 2024 Public Sector Finances report using a spreadsheet file labeled "Public sector finances time series". Outturn revenue data for ukpublicrevenue.co.uk now extends from 1692 to 2023-24.