Topic 01 · Financial year 2024/25
Where the UK's £77.3bn a month goes
Spent
£77.3bn
every month
Tax collected
£64.5 billion
£774 billion a year
National debt
£2.7 trillion
≈97% of GDP
Data sourcesONS — Public sector finances, UKONS Statistics API (api.gov.uk)HM Treasury — Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA)
Total spending£77.3bnhover a segment
exact ONS/HMRC/MHCLG/PSS fields
Where it comes from
Data sourcesHMRC — Tax receipts and National Insurance contributionsHMRC APIs (api.gov.uk)ONS — Public sector finances, UKONS Statistics API (api.gov.uk)exact ONS/HMRC/MHCLG/PSS fields
- Income Tax£38.2bn
- National Insurance£15.7bn
- VAT£13.1bn
- Corporation Tax£3.6bn
- Other Taxes£4bn
What it costs you
Data sourcesONS — Population estimates for the UKONS Statistics API (api.gov.uk)ONS — Families and households in the UKONS Statistics API (api.gov.uk)Per household
£2,578
30.0 million households
Per person
£1,289
68.1 million
Per adult
£1,482
54.6 million adults (18+)
Per child
£1,096
13.5 million children (0–17)
exact ONS/HMRC/MHCLG/PSS fields
Receipts of £64.5 billion vs £77.3bn spending — the gap is borrowed.
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Data last updated 20 Jun 2026, 00:00
Live data from the sources
Fetching the latest ONS public sector finances…
Fetched from the ONS Statistics API (api.beta.ons.gov.uk), listed in the UK Government API Catalogue, covering the Public Sector Finances (PUSF) monthly release. Hover a tile for the series definition, click through for the raw series.