ONS: Public sector finances
Office for National Statistics
Net debt, borrowing, debt interest, monthly public finances. The headline UK measures.
Sources
Every figure on this site is meant to trace back to an official source. These are the sources this project is built to use.
OBR: Public finances databank and forecasts
Office for Budget Responsibility
Long-run public finance series and official forecasts to compare outturn against.
UK Debt Management Office
DMO
Gilt issuance, the stock of gilts, and who holds UK government debt.
HM Treasury: Public spending statistics
HM Treasury
Spending by function (health, education, defence, welfare).
ONS: Population estimates
Office for National Statistics
UK population, used for per-person figures.
IMF: World Economic Outlook database
International Monetary Fund
Consistent international debt and deficit comparisons.
Bank of England: A millennium of macroeconomic data
Bank of England
Long-run historical series for the timeline.
Visit source: Bank of England: A millennium of macroeconomic data
Confidence levels
- official
- Taken directly from an official published release.
- provisional
- Official but flagged by the publisher as subject to revision.
- estimated
- An estimate, interpolation, or nowcast, not a published official figure.
- calculated
- Derived by this site from other figures, such as debt per person.