CRA: UK Public Spending by Country and Region

HM Treasury's Country and Regional Analysis presents breakdowns of public expenditure by country, region, and government function. The dataset is designated as National Statistics and is consistent with departmental outturns published in July. It is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional fiscal disparities based on public spending by country and region.
• Track government spending priorities based on functional expenditure categories.
• Benchmark departmental outturn performance against the Country and Regional Analysis.

Strengths

• Designated as National Statistics, indicating adherence to official quality standards.
• Published by HM Treasury, an authoritative source for UK government financial data.
• Consistent with departmental outturns, providing a cross-check for data integrity.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is presented in HTML format, which may complicate automated extraction and analysis.

Provenance

Source

HM Treasury

Collection Method

Analysis of public spending outturns.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:19.691808; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (by country and region)