Spending by department

PESA 2026 attributes spending on services to departmental groups for 2025-26. A group total is not an admin budget. The groups are not added together on this page.

Total expenditure on services. Not TME. Not the April to August year-to-date. A departmental total is spend on services attributed to that group: Work and Pensions includes social security, HM Treasury includes debt interest. Not an admin budget. The 24 groups sum to 1227647; the sheet total is 1227648.

2025-26, £ million, spending on services by departmental group. Not DEL, and not the health, defence or education function totals.
Departmental group£ million
Work and Pensions308,217
Local Government217,133
Health and Social Care204,655
HM Treasury131,724
Defence62,095
Education50,520
Scottish Government40,810
HM Revenue and Customs32,294
Northern Ireland Executive30,456
Transport29,258
Welsh Government17,311
Science, Innovation and Technology15,458
Justice15,082
Energy Security and Net Zero13,636
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office10,644
Culture, Media and Sport9,605
Home Office9,450
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs6,253
Cabinet Office6,188
Single Intelligence Account4,942
Business and Trade3,879
Housing, Communities and Local Government3,719
Small and Independent Bodies3,283
Law Officers' Departments1,035

Health, defence and education as functions are on their own pages. Those totals are not the departmental groups of the same name.

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Provenance

Source
PESA 2026 chapter 5
Dataset
Departmental groups, 5.1 column V
Published
16 July 2026
Coverage
2025-26. Groups for spending on services, not every public body.
Last updated
24 September 2026 (2026-09-24T08:05:00Z)
Not combined with incompatible series
Not added to each other, to TME, or to the function totals.