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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 £1,057.4 billion. In the fiscal year ending in 2024, total UK public spending is expected to be £1,063.3 billion.

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	Function	-yr 2012 +yr
	Total Spending	£720.9 billion
	Pensions	£129.6 billion
	Health Care	£121.3 billion
	Education	£86.5 billion
	Defence	£44.1 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.

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 2012:

GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables
Revenue: ONS PSF time series dataset
Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank

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UK GDP and Public Debt Update - March 2023

On May 19, 2023 ukpublicspending.co.uk updated UK GDP and public debt outturn and forecasts released with the Office of Budget Responsibility in March 2023.

Recent and forecast GDP comes from the UK Office of Budget Responsibility's Economic and fiscal outlook report, using table 1.1 from tab "1.1" and table 1.2 from tab "1.2" in a spreadsheet file labeled "Economic and fiscal outlook --supplementary economy tables". UK GDP previous to 2009 comes from Measuring Worth. The data goes back to 1700.

Note that chain-linked GDP is now in 2018 pounds.

Public sector net debt, outturn and forecast, comes from a tab called "Aggregates (£bn)" in the Public Finances Databank spreadsheet at the Office of Budget Responsibility.