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Download Data for Year 2026:
Would you like to download public spending data from ukpublicspending.co.uk, spending data that covers central government and local authority spending? No problem. We have four ways you can download spending data. And more to come.
Fast Lane
Click to download your public spending data for Fiscal Year 2026
| simple text | tab-delimited text | simple html <table> without styling | fully styled html <table> |
Slow Lane
Here is how to develop your own custom set of UK public spending data. You can use controls on the table below to change the data, including:
- The fiscal year
- The view including the UN-sponsored COFOG spending classifications.
- The level of spending detail
- The spending units, including billions and millions of pounds, percent of GDP, and percent of overall spending
Step 1: Select the data set you want
In the table below, click the controls to get the data you want.
- Click the “-1yr” and “+1yr” text-links or the “FY 2026” drop-down to change the year from 2026 to the year you want.
- Click the “Change View” controls to change the data labels to the view you want.
- Click the expander [+] controls to add more detail.
- Click the “£ billion” drop-down to change the units.
Go ahead and use the controls on the table below to get the particular spending information you want to download.
| 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. Pie Chart: You can select a pie chart. You can create a pie chart for central government, local authority, and overall spending/revenue. | ||
| GDP: £2,993.9 billion | United Kingdom Central Government and Local Authority Spending -5yr -1yr Fiscal Year 2026 Amounts in £ billion | Pop: 68.8 million |
| Change View: | default COFOG | Central (2) | Gen. Gov.(2) | Local (2) | Total | charts | ||
| [+] Pensions | 224.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 224.6 |   | |||
| [+] Health Care | 252.6 | 0.0 | 4.1 | 256.7 | | |||
| [+] Education | 61.3 | 0.0 | 59.4 | 120.8 | | |||
| [+] 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. | 73.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 73.6 | | |||
| [+] Welfare | 120.7 | 0.0 | 67.3 | 188.0 | | |||
| [+] Protection | 31.7 | 0.0 | 23.1 | 54.8 | | |||
| [+] Transport | 33.8 | 0.0 | 12.0 | 45.7 | | |||
| [+] General Government | 22.4 | 0.0 | 7.2 | 29.6 | | |||
| [+] Other Spending | 149.9 | 0.0 | 74.8 | 224.7 | | |||
| [+] Interest | 100.4 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 101.4 | | |||
| [+] Balance | 1.8 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 3.9 | | |||
| [+] Total Spending: Start chart | 1,072.6 | 0.0 | 251.1 | 1,323.8 | | |||
| [+] Public Net Debt | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2,897.2 | | |||
| [+] Current Budget Deficit | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 36.1 | | |||
| expand / collapse Click for Chart -> |  | | | | ||||
| Key: Pie Chart: You can select a pie chart. You can create a pie chart for central government, local authority, and overall spending/revenue. GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables | Switch to revenue | |||||||
OK. Now you are ready to download your data.
Step 2: Copy Your Data
We offer four ways of downloading your data:
- A simple text table with the top-line numbers for total spending across all governments.
- A tab-delimited table that you can cut and paste into your spreadsheet program.
- A simple table using html <table> tags without styling.
- A fully styled html <table> with all the styles included.
Top-line numbers
If you want just the top-line total numbers for overall public spending, federal, state, and local, then here they are:
Use your cursor to copy and paste the following lines into your own content:
and Local Authority Spending
Fiscal Year 2026
Amounts in £ billion
Pensions: £224.6
Health Care: £256.7
Education: £120.8
Defence: £73.6
Welfare: £188.0
Protection: £54.8
Transport: £45.7
General Government: £29.6
Other Spending: £224.7
Interest: £101.4
Balance: £3.9
Total Spending: £1,323.8
Public Net Debt: £2,897.2
Current Budget Deficit: £36.1
source: ukpublicspending.co.uk
Here is a bar chart of the top-line numbers. Right click the cursor to copy or save the image:
Tab-delimited Table
Here is the spending table with columns tab-delimited. You can cut and paste directly into a spreadsheet:
You can copy all the text in the textbox by clicking your cursor in the box. Then press Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C and paste the text into your spreadsheet.
Simple html <table>
Maybe you want to get the data formatted in html for insertion into your content as a table. Here is the data in html with a simple table setup. There are no fancy tags or styles. Just a straight table with <table>, <tr>, and <td> tags.
You can copy all the text in the textbox by clicking your cursor in the box. Then press Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C and paste the html into your content.
Fully styled table
Here in the textbox is the full table with styles but without controls. The styles are built around an id called “ukgs342”. It shouldn’t interfere with your styles.
You can copy all the text in the textbox by clicking your cursor in the box. Then press Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C and paste into your content.
Download Data as CSV File
Click button to download CSV file of data in table
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Data Sources for 2026:
GDP: OBR EFO supp. economy tables
Spending: HM Treasury PESA
Debt: OBR Public Finances Databank
> spending data sources for other years
On July 23, 2025, HM Treasury published its Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) for 2025. ukpublicspending.co.uk uses the PESA tables of public spending at the "sub-function" level as its major data source for UK public spending.
ukpublicspending.co.uk has now updated its spending tables using data from PESA 2025. The update includes outturn spending data for 2023-24, and plans data for 2024-25. ukpublicspending.co.uk uses PESA's Table 6.4 for Central Government expenditure, Table 7.4 for Local Authority expenditure, and Table 8.3 for Public Corporation capital expenditure.
Since HM Treasury does not provide plans estimates for future Local Authority spending, ukpublicspending.co.uk provides "guesstimates" instead. This is done by extending the percentage increase in spending between 2023-24 and 2024-25 for each sub-function for the plans year. It is assumed that local authority spending reductions will not carry through to plans years.
Country and Region spending has been updated up to 2023-24. These are obtained from Chapters 9 and 10 in the PESA document.
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