Public Spending Statistics: UK Government Expenditure by Department and Function

Public Spending Statistics from HM Treasury present analyses of UK government expenditure against budgeting and service frameworks. The data covers public spending by department, function, and economic category. It is designated as National Statistics and is available in XLS and PDF formats under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze departmental budget allocations based on the described spending by department.
• Model public expenditure trends by economic category based on the described economic classification.
• Benchmark service delivery costs based on the described spending against service frameworks.

Strengths

• Data is designated as National Statistics, indicating a formal quality assurance process.
• Analyses cover multiple dimensions: department, function, and economic category.
• Published by HM Treasury, the UK government's finance ministry.

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 13:33:19.315549; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom