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Pie chart of UK government spending, 2023–24. [2]The most significant area of government spending is welfare (£341 billion in financial year 2023-24), [2] with the largest single element of this being for the State Pension, which totals £124 billion.
Since autumn 2017 the United Kingdom budget typically takes place in the Autumn in order to allow major tax changes to occur annually, well before the start of the fiscal year. [2] The most recent budget was presented by Rachel Reeves on 30 October 2024. The UK fiscal year ends on 5 April each year. The financial year ends on 31 March of each year.
Spending by the UK in the US, on everything from food to munitions, occupied 40% of total British war expenditure by 1916. [173] The banking house J.P. Morgan & Co. won a concession in January 1915 to act as the sole purchasing agent for the Admiralty and War Department in the United States. $20 billion worth of trade was undertaken in this way ...
In the 20-year period from 1986/87 to 2006/07 government spending in the United Kingdom averaged around 40% of GDP. [15] As a result of the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession, government spending increased to a historically high level of 48% of GDP in 2009–10, partly as a result of the cost of a series of bank bailouts.
“The Scottish Government receives over 20% more funding per person than equivalent UK Government spending in other parts of the UK, £8.5 billion more per year on average for the Scottish ...
This article lists countries alphabetically, with total government expenditure as percentage of Gross domestic product (GDP) for the listed countries. Also stated is the government revenue and net lending/borrowing of the government as percentage of GDP. All Data is based on the World Economic Outlook Databook of the International Monetary Fund.
Pie chart of UK central government expenditure, 2009–10.Social Protection is shown in orange, health in red, education in grey, and personal services in light blue. The welfare state represents around two-thirds of total government spending.
So, how has government spending. Over the last 30 years, the nation's debt has skyrocketed from almost $10 trillion in 1994 to over $35 trillion in 2024, according to recent data from the ...