Where every pound of UK public money came from and where it went in the last full financial year. Amounts follow the “Show as” setting in the menu.
From 2003-04 to 2025-26. Cash figures are what was spent at the time; real terms adjust for inflation to 2025-26 prices; share of GDP compares with the size of the economy.
Public spending that can be traced to where people live, per resident, in 2024-25 (the latest regional figures). It covers about four-fifths of spending on services; defence, debt interest and overseas aid benefit the UK as a whole and are left out.
The vertical line marks the UK average. These figures are always shown per person.
The same money seen through the organisations that spend it, 2025-26. This view excludes the accounting adjustments, so it adds up to £1,228bn rather than £1,360bn. Much of the Department for Work and Pensions' spending is benefits; local government is councils' own spending across the UK.
Spending is Total Managed Expenditure (TME): all current and capital spending by central government, local government and public corporations across the UK. Income is public sector current receipts: taxes, National Insurance and other income. Both cover the financial year from April 2025 to March 2026.
The spending breakdown comes from the Treasury's July 2026 analysis, which puts total spending at £1,360.1bn. The ONS revised this to £1,365.6bn in September, which is why official borrowing is £134.3bn (4.4% of GDP) rather than the £128.8bn gap between the two headline totals used in the explorer.
Spending follows the UN's functions of government (COFOG), the codes shown on each area, as published by the Treasury. Below that, benefits come from DWP's latest estimate, the NHS England split from its 2025-26 allocations, taxes from the ONS's detailed receipts table, and who pays income tax from HMRC's income tax liabilities statistics. Where sources don't meet exactly, the difference is shown as its own labelled block, so every level adds up.