Your money
Public Money Tracker
Where the money the state spends on your behalf goes, what it works out at for a household, and what each department runs on. Every figure is the Office for Budget Responsibility's or HM Treasury's own, with the source beside it.
Latest fiscal event on the record
Autumn Budget 2024
30 October 2024 · Rachel Reeves, Labour
The first Budget of the new Labour government and the first delivered by a female Chancellor. Set out about £40 billion of tax rises, chiefly an increase in employer National Insurance contributions.
One of the largest tax-raising Budgets in decades.
Source: HM Treasury. The Budgets and statements Britain Next holds since 2000 are on The Agenda; the record currently ends here.
Where the money goes
In 2025-26, all public spending comes to about £1.37tn, about £48,000 per household. These are the largest calls on it, each shown as its share of the total and as what it works out at for a household.
Cash transfers through the welfare system, including the state pension
about £11,700 a year per household
Day-to-day health spending
about £7,200 a year per household
Roads, buildings and loans (capital investment)
about £5,500 a year per household
Net interest on the national debt, more than day-to-day spending on either education or defence.
about £3,900 a year per household
Day-to-day education spending
about £3,300 a year per household
Day-to-day defence spending
about £1,400 a year per household
These are the largest items. They do not sum to the total; the rest is everything else the state runs, from local services to policing. Source: Office for Budget Responsibility, 2025-26. Official figures.
By department
The day-to-day budgets of each government department for 2025-26, about £497bn in total. Health and Social Care dwarfs the rest; most departments run on a fraction of it. Each bar is drawn relative to the largest.
Day-to-day departmental budgets (resource DEL). This is what each department runs on; large benefit and pension payments are counted separately. Source: HM Treasury, PESA 2026 (Resource DEL, 2025-26). Official figures.
How to read this
The per-household figures apply each item's share of total spending to the OBR's own per-household total for the year, rounded to the nearest £100. They describe what the state spends, not what any one household pays in tax. The pressures that spending answers, from NHS waits to housing, are on The Agenda and in Britain's vital signs.