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In the 20-year period from 1986/87 to 2006/07 government spending in the UK averaged around 40% of GDP. [132] In July 2007, the UK had government debt at 35.5% of GDP . [ 133 ] As a result of the 2007–2010 financial crisis and the late-2000s global recession , government spending increased to a historically high level of 48% of GDP in 2009 ...
Debt interest has grown as a proportion of government spending in the last few years as a result of rising interest rates, and increased debt due to primarily to the cost of the Covid pandemic. [10] In financial year 2018–19, debt interest was £43 billion - around 5% of total government spending [11] compared to around 10% in 2023–24.
Majority of the decrease in GDP occurred in March and April 2020 and was followed by a sharp increase in June and July although GDP did not return to pre-pandemic levels until late 2021. The drop, while brief, was the deepest recession since 1709. [21] The event triggered an inflationary shock and a wider cost of living crisis. [22] 2023 recession
The Confederation of British Industry, which represents 190,000 businesses, said it expects UK GDP to grow by just 1.2% in 2020. The Confederation of British Industry, which represents 190,000 ...
Gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.5% between April and June, revised down from an initial estimate of 0.6%. UK economic growth weaker than first thought over spring, figures show Skip to ...
The pharmaceutical industry employs around 67,000 people in the UK and in 2007 contributed £8.4 billion to the UK's GDP and invested a total of £3.9 billion in research and development. [ 113 ] [ 114 ] In 2007 exports of pharmaceutical products from the UK totalled £14.6 billion, creating a trade surplus in pharmaceutical products of £4.3 ...
A jump in government spending helped fuel the UK's economic growth in the second quarter, the country's Office for National Statistics said. Government spending grew 1% in the quarter, the fastest ...
Real GDP was forecast to fall at a nearly 38% annual rate in the second quarter, or 11.2% versus the prior quarter, with a return to positive quarter-to-quarter growth of 5.0% in Q3 and 2.5% in Q4 2020. However, real GDP was not expected to regain its Q4 2019 level until 2022 or later. The unemployment rate was forecast to average 11.5% in 2020 ...