PESA: UK Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses by HM Treasury

Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) presents UK public spending outturns against the budgetary framework. The dataset includes analysis by function, economic category, and territory, including country, region, and NUTS1 levels. It is produced by HM Treasury and designated as National Statistics.

Use Cases

• Analyze public spending trends over time based on budgetary outturns mentioned in the description
• Compare expenditure by government function based on functional analysis mentioned in the description
• Assess regional spending distribution based on territorial breakdowns by country and NUTS1 region
• Model economic impacts of government spending based on analysis by economic category

Strengths

• Designated as National Statistics, indicating adherence to official quality standards
• Produced by HM Treasury, the UK government's finance ministry
• Analysis covers multiple dimensions: function, economic category, and territory

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

HM Treasury

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:30.392378; freshness should be verified

Geography

United Kingdom (country and region, NUTS1)