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Spending Units: By default, public spending is displayed in billions of pounds. By using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select £ bln (2019), and percent of GDP.
Chart Title: You can create a title for your chart. Use the title text box to enter a title and click the button to the right of the text field.
General Help: You can use controls on the table below to change the following variables: spending units—e.g. percent of GDP, etc.— and year. You can select the HM Treasury Budget fiscal year.
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Data Stack: By default, the data series are “stacked” when displayed on the chart. But you can change the setting to “un stack” the data series.
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If you’d like to create your own custom chart of revenue data you should use the table above to make your selections.

  • Select the year range: Select the start year and the end year you want by selecting the years you want in the two year dropdown boxes.
  • Select revenue items: Just select the revenue item you want from the dropdown control. Then click a radio button to select the level of government: central or local. If you select from the < select > you will add another data series to your chart. Up to 5 data series are allowed at once. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart.
  • Select units: You can select the display in billions of nominal (i.e. inflated) pounds, billions of real (i.e. year 2019) pounds, or as percent of GDP.
  • Choose chart features: You can select the size of the chart, switch from bar chart to line chart, select color or black and white, stacked or not. You can also blow up the chart to fill the screen with the “fullsize” tab control above the chart display.

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Below is a formatted version of the dataset displayed in the chart. Included is a column of nominal or chained GDP for each year charted.

Total Direct Revenue
Fiscal Years 1936 to 1956
YearInflationGDP-UK
£ billion nominal		Population-UK
million		Total Direct Revenue -total -total
£ billion nominal
19360.9MW gdp47.0811.10a
19373.46MW gdp47.2891.16a
19382.36MW gdp47.4941.22a
19392.89MW gdp47.5481.29a
194011.13MW gdp46.0291.44a
194111.46MW gdp44.8701.81a
19427.49MW gdp44.3232.50a
19434.44MW gdp48.2623.25a
19445MW gdp48.4603.49a
19451.64MW gdp48.6693.70a
19462.81MW gdp48.9883.77a
19479.08MW gdp49.5393.65a
19486.34MW gdp50.0333.95a
19493.19MW gdp50.3314.91a
19501.34MW gdp50.3825.27a
19518.55MW gdp50.2875.46a
19527.11MW gdp50.4295.88a
19531.83MW gdp50.5936.20a
19541.13MW gdp50.7656.34a
19554.91MW gdp50.9466.59a
19567.05MW gdp51.1847.04a

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a - actual outturn

Data Sources for 1936:
GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Revenue: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

Data Sources for 1956:
GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Revenue: ONS PSF time series dataset
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

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Data Sources for 1936_1956:

Sources for 1936:

GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Revenue: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

Sources for 1956:

GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Revenue: ONS PSF time series dataset
Debt: B.R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics

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UK Public Revenue Outturn -- March 2026

On April 23, 2026 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its annual Public Sector Finances report. On April 30, 2026 we updated ukpublicrevenue.co.uk with the new public finance data.

UK Government Revenue
£ billion2025-26
forecast		2025-26
actual
Central Government£1,071.9£1,136.9
Local Authorities£69.1£70.1
Total UK Revenue£1,141.0£1,207.0

Revenue outturn data comes from the Office for National Statistics' March 2026 Public Sector Finances report using a spreadsheet file pusf.csv labeled "Public sector finances time series". Outturn revenue data for ukpublicrevenue.co.uk now extends from 1692 to 2025-26. 

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