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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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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.