UK government spending by year
Total managed expenditure was £1,360.1 billion in 2025-26, from PESA 2026 table 4.1. This is not spending on services.
Financial-year outturn. Table 4.1 is the UK total, not a department. Table 4.2 is spending by function, not by the department names used from 2021-22. Plans after 2025-26 are omitted. Do not add these to calendar-year JW2O or to TES.
| Financial year | TME |
|---|---|
| 2010-11 | £743.0 billion |
| 2011-12 | £745.5 billion |
| 2012-13 | £759.2 billion |
| 2013-14 | £764.6 billion |
| 2014-15 | £786.2 billion |
| 2015-16 | £793.7 billion |
| 2016-17 | £811.4 billion |
| 2017-18 | £838.8 billion |
| 2018-19 | £856.1 billion |
| 2019-20 | £884.9 billion |
| 2020-21 | £1,102.9 billion |
| 2021-22 | £1,040.9 billion |
| 2022-23 | £1,160.7 billion |
| 2023-24 | £1,230.8 billion |
| 2024-25 | £1,290.0 billion |
| 2025-26 | £1,360.1 billion |
Related
- Spending on services by year
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- Financial years on the ledger
- Historical data
Provenance
- Source
- PESA 2026 chapter 4
- Dataset
- PESA 2026 table 4.1 and 4.2
- Published
- Date not printed on this extract. The file is PESA 2026.
- Coverage
- 2010-11 to 2025-26. Plans after the latest outturn year in the extract are omitted.
- Last updated
- 24 September 2026 (2026-09-24T08:05:00Z)
- Not combined with incompatible series
- Not TES. Not calendar-year JW2O. Not the OBR forecast.