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Borrowing between March and December 2024 stands at £129.9bn, which is £8.9bn more than for the same period a year earlier. The total amount the government owes is called the national debt.
Interest payments on UK national debt as percentage of GDP, 1900-2011. Distinct from both the national debt and the PSNCR is the interest that the government must pay to service the existing national debt. In 2012, the annual cost of servicing the public debt amounted to around £43bn, or roughly 3% of GDP. [11]
The UK government has spent more than it has raised in taxation since financial year 2001–02, [3] creating a budget deficit and leading to growing debt interest payments. Average government spending per person is higher in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland than it is in England.
In Northern Ireland the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 [37] govern the system. In the winter of 2011–12, the benefit cost the UK Government £2.1 billion and was paid out to 12.7 million people. [38]
The March 2024 United Kingdom budget was delivered to the House of Commons by Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 6 March 2024. [1] [2] It was the second budget presented by Hunt since his appointment as Chancellor, the last to be delivered during his tenure as chancellor and the last budget to be presented by the Conservative government of Rishi Sunak before the party was ...
In the United Kingdom, taxation may involve payments to at least three different levels of government: central government (HM Revenue and Customs), devolved governments and local government. Central government revenues come primarily from income tax, National Insurance contributions, value added tax, corporation tax and fuel duty.
In response to this news, Hunt said that reducing inflation from "dangerously high levels" was the government's priority. [31] The following day, the Bank of England raised its baseline interest rate for the 11th consecutive time, from 4% to 4.25%, in response to the unexpected growth of inflation. [32]
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