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Download UK Public Spending Data Series 1692-2026

You can download any of the raw data series used to compile the public spending data in ukpublicspending.co.uk. You select the data series you want and then copy-paste the tab delimited data from a textbox on this page into your spreadsheet.

Warning: Be careful about using raw data. The raw data series are not “curated,” meaning that you cannot be sure if the data series applies for a specific year and a specific function. A data series typically does not extend the whole length of UK history. Check out multiyear download if you want full-length curated data series.

Download Instructions:

Prepare a suite of data for download by making a selection from one of the dropdown menus below. You can select:

  1. A group of functionally related spending data series
  2. An individual spending data series
You can also remove individual data series that you don’t want.

Select Functional Data Series Group: Select a group of data series to download (you can add individual data series later):

Add Individual Data Series: Select Spending Data Series to add to download (you can add more later):

Change Data Units: You can download data in raw format (i.e., in the units used in the database for each item, or in £ billion, £ million, or percent of GDP.

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Select Fiscal Year: You can select the budget for which you want to download estimated public spending.

Copy and Paste: When you have created the dataset you want then just copy the tab-delimited text in the textbox below (click cursor in text box, then press ctrl-A then press ctrl-C) and paste it into your spreadsheet.

Here is a formatted version of the data you have selected.You can remove a data series by selecting “out” in the dropdown for each data series.

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195417.589no data6031no data
195519.16no data6241no data
195620.832no data6763no data
195722.093no data6979no data
195823.21no data7401no data
195924.378no data7816no data
196026.189no data8350no data
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196434.043no data12743no data
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196845.809no data19092no data
196949.785no data19789no data
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1975115.027no data51524no data
1976136.901no data58464no data
1977159.631no data61867no data
1978185.96no data71949no data
1979220.721no data85166no data
1980259.663no data103858no data
1981289.84no data116060no data
1982319.212no data128044no data
1983351.051no data132700no data
1984377.644no data140500no data
1985414.428no data150900no data
1986446.635no data6269no data
1987496.14no data6898no data
1988555.607no data7185no data
1989614.524no data7509no data
1990668.931no data8142no data
1991705.464no data9338no data
1992730.578no data9915no data
1993769.1591915911193061937
1994809.4862030831237757987
1995850.1812117521275665651
1996907.2652276751333469610
1997951.752358851756666862
1998997.2472403981811172204
19991039.752463862094975373
20001095.92517052206180898
20011138.382659322367685426
20021187.672845492660691267
20031256.193043632830899397
20041317.4633192330270107493
20051393.0435607932652118624
20061470.7236176134678127085
20071546.0839778036195132613
20081589.2642080738069139802
20091582.745605241668148518
20101558.148970543755155962
20111627.252644644242160588
20121672.353310244739155746
20131727.555406245139154782
20141800.855929645474153678
20151879.557104146806153904
20161931.559751547694155768
20172015.861360548106156230
20182099.863762748496156859
20192170.265788349807158518
20202240.868706151167164585
20212085.688204468379194386
20222357.883029160314180662
20232583.292153565613189681
2024274994353568166203674
20252881.3990736no data212767
20262993.91058970no data222266

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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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