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    You can display a maximum of five data series at once.
    Spending Units: By default, public spending is displayed in billions of pounds. By using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select £ bln (2018), and percent of GDP.
    Chart Title: You can create a title for your chart. Use the title text box to enter a title and click the button to the right of the text field.
    UK or Country: By default, the chart shows overall United Kingdom government spending. But you can select spending for individual countries by selecting the country dropdown control in the table heading.
    View: There are two ways to view the spending data. The default view breaks down spending into functions. There is also a COFOG view that categorizes spending using the UN standard methodology.
    General Help: You can use controls on the table below to change the following variables: spending units—e.g. percent of GDP, etc.— and year. You can select the HM Treasury Budget fiscal year.
    Line/Bar: By default, the data series are displayed as line charts. But you can also select a bar chart.
    Data Stack: By default, the data series are “stacked” when displayed on the chart. But you can change the setting to “un stack” the data series.
    Chart Size: By default, the chart is displayed at medium size. But you can use the dropdown control to change the size.
    Color: By default charts are displayed with color data lines and fill. You can change this to grayscale if you want.

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    Start Year: You can select any start year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select a start year to get close, then select the start year you want.
    End Year: You can select any end year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select an end year to get close, then select the end year you want.
    Category (max 7)Sub-categoryCentral 
    Gov.    		General 
    Gov.    		Local 
    Auth.    		Total   
     
    Data Series: You can select up to five data series to display on your chart. Click on a checkbox to add or delete a data series from the chart. Once you get to five data series you will have to delete a series before you can add one. Click a [+] expand control to drill down to more detailed data series.
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    * If you add data series at same government level, this item will be shown as Remaining Spending.

    If you’d like to create your own custom chart of spending data you should use the table above to make your selections.

    • Select the year range: Select the start year and the end year you want by selecting the years you want in the two year dropdown boxes.
    • Select spending items: Just select the spending item you want from the dropdown control. Then click a radio button to select the level of government: federal, state, or local. If you select from the < select > you will add another data series to your chart. Up to 5 data series are allowed at once. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart.
    • Select units: You can select the display in billions of nominal (i.e. inflated) pounds, billions of real (i.e. year 2018) pounds, or as percent of GDP.
    • Choose chart features: You can select the size of the chart, switch from bar chart to line chart, select color or black and white, stacked or not. You can also blow up the chart to fill the screen with the “fullsize” tab control above the chart display.

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    Below is a formatted version of the dataset displayed in the chart. Included is a column of nominal or chained GDP for each year charted.

    Total Spending
    Fiscal Years 2014 to 2025
    YearInflationGDP-UK
    £ billion nominal    		Population-UK
    million    		Total Spending -total
    £ billion nominal
    20142.131803.164.597743.02a
    20151.141879.865.110759.06a
    20160.811937.665.648785.63a
    20172.12021.766.040808.05a
    20181.72102.366.436831.87a
    20191.822176.766.797852.35a
    20202.612247.167.844883.62a
    20215.392087.668.1381105.87a
    2022-0.662337.968.4141039.53a
    20235.69250468.6711134.10e
    20242.562573.268.9211145.11g
    20251.62668.768.3391155.85g

    Legend:
    a - actual outturn
    e - estimate in HM Treasury hist budget
    g - 'guesstimated' projection by ukpublicspending.co.uk

    Data Sources for 2014:
    GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables
    Spending: HM Treasury PESA
    Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank

    Data Sources for 2025:
    GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables
    Spending: HM Treasury PESA
    Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank

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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 2014_2025:

    Sources for 2014:

    GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables
    Spending: HM Treasury PESA
    Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank

    Sources for 2025:

    GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables
    Spending: HM Treasury PESA
    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
    £ billion2023-24
    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. 

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