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. UK or Country/Region: By default, the table shows values for all spending in the United Kingdom. But you can select individual countries by selecting the country dropdown control in the table heading. 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 2010 +1yr Amounts in £ billion	GDP: £1,411.0 billion(1)

Change View:	default COFOG	Central (2)	General Gov.(2)	Local (2)	Total	charts
[+] Pensions		119.1	0.0	0.0	119.1
[+] Health Care		118.7	0.0	0.3	119.0
[+] Education		29.9	0.0	54.2	84.0
[+] 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		43.6	0.0	0.1	43.7
[+] Welfare		57.7	0.0	47.4	105.1
[+] Protection		16.0	0.0	18.7	34.7
[+] Transport		13.2	0.0	11.3	24.5
[+] General Government		12.7	0.0	14.0	26.7
[+] Other Spending		50.1	0.0	33.8	83.9
[+] Interest		27.2	0.0	0.6	27.8
[+] Balance		0.3	0.0	-7.5	-7.2
[+] Total Spending		488.5	0.0	172.9	661.4
[+] Public Net Debt		0.0	0.0	0.0	1,015.2
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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 2009 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 2009. The next update will be made after the PESA 2010 is published in April or May 2010.

“The point is to show all public spending in the UK: central government and local authority.”

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Spending for 2008-09 is now "outturn"; spending for 2009-10 is now "estimated outturn". Central government spending for 2010-11 is "plans", as estimated by HM Treasury. Local authority spending for 2010-11 is "guesstimated" by UkPublicSpending.co.uk by projecting the change between 2008-09 and 2009-10 forward to 2010-11.

Note: HM Treasury has not released spending estimates at the subfunction level for years after the current fiscal year 2010-11.

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