Sep 16, 2009 - Paybill. £3.026bn. Jobseeker's allowance. £2.881bn. Other admin spending. £2.734bn ... maternity pay.
Investment in school buildings
School standards
Other school spending
£1.5bn
£4.9bn
£1.5bn
Learning and Skills Council £4.441bn
General schools' spending
Academies & specialist schools
£28.9bn
£0.9bn
School meals
£1.197bn
+4% Teachers' pension scheme
Learning and Skills Council
£5.1bn
£0.708bn
+8%
Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform [3]
£0.42bn
£5.6bn
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Other
£3.2bn
Children & families
+4%
£0.7bn
National policing improvement agency £0.596bn
Other
£1.6bn
Department for Transport
£4bn
£2.5bn
Capital support to local authorities £1.9bn
£6bn
Capital grants to private sector
£0.005bn
£0.831bn
Office of Fair Trading (Oft) £0.078bn (-1%)
£24.1bn [1]
£ 0.035bn
+7%
£15.362bn
Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) £0.222bn (+3%)
-6%
DVLA £0.57bn
Office of Rail Regulation £0.0323bn Accident investigation £0.016bn (+8%) Clean fuels & vehicles £0.016bn
Bus service operators’ grant £0.4bn British Transport police £0.27bn VOSA £0.19bn Driving standards agency £0.19bn
£0.8bn
Kaupthing statutory debt
£0.6bn
£2bn
Cabinet Office
£0.85bn
Royal Air Force
Submarines £2.1bn
Electoral Commission £0.023bn (+2%)
-5%
Frigates & destroyers £1.8bn Naval aircraft £1.2bn
£7.7bn
Royal Navy
Eliminating £5.2bn poverty
Rest of world £0.4bn Development £0.3bn
£7.3bn
£0.19bn
HM Revenue and Customs [8]
£34.1bn
BBC media monitoring £0.025bn
Government security programme £0.012 SCOPE programme £0.006bn Electronic communications assurance programme
+10%
£0.001bn
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs [4]
Environment £1.0bn Environmental emergencies £1.0bn
training
£27bn
Conflict prevention
-2%
£0.042bn
£3.051bn (+1%)
Ministry of defence [9]
£44.6bn
Northern Ireland Office
+5%
Afghanistan £2.6bn
Prisons £0.157bn Compensation agency £0.055bn Public prosecution service £0.038bn Criminal justice £0.034bn Youth justice agency £0.022bn
Operations £5bn War pensions
Devolved spending Northern Ireland Health, social services £4.87bn
Devolved spending Scotland
Finance & sustainable growth
£3.27bn
Education
£2.68bn
£16.3bn +6%
Regional development
Environment £0.14bn Culture, arts & leisure £0.20bn Trade, enterprise £0.25bn
£2.46bn
Agriculture £0.34bn
Employment & learning
£0.96bn
+6.26%
£2.82bn
Justice
£1.71bn
NOTES predominantly financed by their income, such as the Crown Estate or the Export Credits Guarantee Department. The totals here add up to more than the total budget, because some of the smaller government departments are funded via the larger ones, such as the Parliamentary Counsel Office, funded via the Cabinet Office.
Rural affairs, environment
£0.48bn
ALL % CHANGES DO NOT TAKE ACCOUNT OF INFLATION [1] Interest paid on the public debt [2] The large increase in HM Treasury spending reflects the payments made in supporting the financial sector - not all of which are scored as “financial stability” here. However, as these payments
National Audit Office £0.103bn (+28%)
Wales Office £0.005bn (-1%)
House of Lords £0.104bn (-14%)
£32.4bn
Mental illness
£7.8bn
£7.1bn
National offender management service £1.16bn
Department for Culture Media & Sport Total
Local government & social justice
£4.403bn
£15bn
Devolved spending Wales
+8.27%
Foreign and Commonwealth Office [7] £1.931bn (-8%)
£1,186bn
£0.758bn
£0.152bn
were made in return for assets - they do not show up as net outlays in figures for overall public sector spending in the National Accounts. [3] BERR figures exclude spending on energy policy, which was transferred to the new [3] Department for Energy and Climate
£0.154
British Council £0.188bn
Change (DECC) on 3 October 2008. This explains the significant decrease in BERR's departmental spending between 2007-08 and 2008-09. DECC is shown separately. BERR has now become the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). [4] The Rural Payments Agency distributes CAP payments - covered
Consular & visa services £0.415bn Delivering foreign policy £1.094bn
BBC World Service £0.242bn
by transfers from EU so do not show up as net spending here [5] Benefit spending excludes child benefit, guardians' allowance; widow’s pensions; statutory paternity pay, statutory adoption pay - these paid by HMRC, MoD, DBERR respectively [6] Excludes spending on family health services and GP
+2%
Royal parks £0.02bn Tourism £0.06bn
Admin £0.431bn
Conflict prevention £0.236bn
£6.8bn
£1.5bn
Accommodation costs £0.038bn
Subscriptions to UN & other bodies
Rural affairs
National lottery funds distributed
Local staff £0.079bn
FCO programmes £0.147bn
Environment
Office Of Communications From Government Funding (Ofcom) [10] £0.134bn (66%)
House of Commons £0.404bn (+4%)
Health & social services £5.995bn
Economy & transport
£2.55bn
General & acute
Community health services
Libraries £0.12bn Architecture & history £0.21bn Royal household £0.02bn
DCMS
Other
£2.3bn
NHS
Arts
£0.44bn [7] Running costs includes salaries, hospitality budgets, home and overseas accommodation costs [8] Spending on Child Benefits and Tax Credits etc does not come out of the departmental expenditure pot [9] Is higher than budget due to extra from Treasury reserves to
(+6%) Health Protection Agency £0.17bn (+8%)
S4C £0.10bn Film council £0.03bn £3.12bn Broadcasting & media
£5.3bn
Learning difficulties
£2.4bn
£94.522bn
£1,876bn
NHS & teachers’ pensions
Clean energy £0.08bn
International deal on climate change £0.008bn
HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate £0.004bn (+2%)
Children & education
Finance £0.36bn
The figures give a picture of major expenditure but exclude local government spending not controlled by central government. We don't have room to show everything — some programmes are just too small to go here, but this gives a flavour of where your tax pounds go. It also excludes government departments who are
£33bn
Education
£0.28bn
Low-carbon UK £0.7bn
Attorney General's Office £0.006bn (-16%)
Scotland Office £0.008bn (+5%)
£11.55bn £5.19bn Social development
HM courts service £1.24bn
£1.44bn (-6%)
Health
£2.1bn
Public bodies £1.39bn
Serious Fraud Office £0.051bn (+11%)
Policing & security £1.009bn
Bloody Sunday inquiry £0.004bn
£1bn
Iraq £2bn
+5%
Private prisons
Nuclear decommissioning £1.7bn
Department of Energy & Climate Change [3]
Publicly funded legal services £1.91bn
£9.7bn
Crown Prosecution Service £0.631bn (+0.3%)
Government Actuary's Dept £0.012bn (+13%)
Farming and food £0.2bn
Prison service £2.18bn
Ministry of Justice
+7% on 2007/08
£6.1bn
£5.6bn
Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat) £0.0149bn (+14%)
£620.685bn
+15%
Rural payments agency £0.3bn Consumption & production £0.2bn
Departmental operations £0.2bn Rural communities £0.1bn Forestry Commission £0.1bn Climate change £0.02bn
Food Standards Agency £0.155bn (-10%)
Total spending, 2008/2009
£5.2bn
Central debts £0.2bn Environment £0.1bn
£1.8bn Support &
Operating costs
Central £2bn Command
Pay and pensions
Asia £0.7bn
£8bn
£10bn
Royal Marines £0.6bn
Equipment
Field units Army
£1.8bn
Child trust fund
Office of the third sector £0.171bn
£7.55bn
Parliamentary Counsel Office £0.012bn (+3%)
As public spending again comes under the spotlight, the Guardian and the Institute for Fiscal Studies present the ultimate guide to how central government spends our money - and how it has changed since last year. From hospital beds to missiles, this is what happens to your taxes
Multilateral aid effectiveness
Sub-Saharan Africa £1.3bn
£11.21bn
£23.7bn
Security services £1.777bn
National School of Government £0.002bn (-36%)
Department for International Development
Combat
£3.7bn aircraft
Child benefit
Tax credits
RAF regt & ground services Intelligence & reconnaissance aircraft
£1.6bn
+22%
Charity Commission for England & Wales £0.0323bn (-2%)
Ports & shipping £0.06bn Coastguard £0.1bn
Dunfermline debt Icesave (Landsbanki) debt
+49,891%
Employment support allowance £0.769bn
Treasury Solicitors' Department £0.015bn (+3%)
£10.4bn
£109.5bn
Invalid care allowance / carer's allowance £1.367bn
Revenue & Customs Prosecutions Office £0.034bn (+10%)
Postal Services Commission £0.0097bn (+8%)
Bradford & Bingley
£85.5bn
Her Majesty’s Treasury [2]
National Savings & Investments £0.190bn (+12%)
Office of Gas & Electricity Markets (Ofgem)
£18.8bn
Financial stability
Other admin spending £2.734bn Winter fuel payments £2.694bn
Over-75s TV licences £0.528bn
Northern Rock
£36.9bn
Statutory maternity pay £2.075bn
UK Trade & Investment [11] £0.095bn (+8%)
£21bn
Jobseeker’s allowance £2.881bn
+8%
£62.677bn +9%
Financial services compensation scheme
Bank recapitalisation (Lloyds & RBS)
Promoting business
Debt interest
Independent Police Complaints Commission
£4.23bn
£135.7bn
State pensions
Highways Agency
£6.5bn
Railways £1.8bn Net capital expenditure on fixed assets £1.1bn
UKAEA pension schemes £0.286bn Professional support & infrastructure £0.178bn Better regulation
Office
+5%
Identity & passport service £0.124bn
GLA transport grants
£0.646bn
£9.98bn Home
Serious Organised Crime Agency £0.463bn
Sure Start
£1.7bn
Police
Border control £1.624bn Office for Security & Counter-terrorism £0.826bn
£63.18bn
Free & Fair markets
Pension Council credit tax benefit £7.798bn
Department for Work and Pensions [5]
£36.8bn
Departmental science programmes
Income support £8.687bn
Paybill £3.026bn
Housing benefit £17.181bn
Dept of Communities & Local Government
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills [12]
+7%
Other spending on further education
£10.9bn Young people
£23.046bn
Spending by local & regional government
£25.4bn
£7.192bn
Student grants
Disability benefit £16.218bn
£7.3bn
£4.1bn
£3.295bn
£42.8bn
Other spending
Higher Education Council £5.506bn Funding for England
Research councils
Schools
£0.01bn
Improving supply & quality of housing
Student loans
Museums and galleries £0.54bn Tate gallery £0.06bn British museum £0.05bn Natural History Museum £0.05bn V&A £0.05bn Sport £0.50bn
Department of Health [6]
£109.4bn +8%
Maternity
£2bn
Accident & emergency
£1.9bn
NHS pensions
£13.387bn Personal social services
£1.516bn
Olympics
£0.61bn
cover operations. The total amounts may not sum as there are overlapping amounts, ie between operations and running costs [10] The amount of government funding from DBERR and DCMS, rest from licence fees from broadcasters and media organisations [11] Split between Parliament direct, the FCO and DBERR
[12] BERR and DIUS have been merged to create the new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The departments are shown separately here, as this reflects the way they functioned in 2008-09. From 2009-10 onwards the functions and spending of these two departments will be merged.
SOURCES: DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS, INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE STATISTICAL ANALYSES (PESA) RESEARCH: SIMON ROGERS, GEMMA TETLOW, KATY STODDARD GRAPHIC: JENNY RIDLEY, MICHAEL ROBINSON
