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Apr 6, 2023 · The office of former chief executive Carrie Lam, who oversaw one of the most turbulent periods in Hong Kong’s history, has spent around HK$13.5 million since she ended her term last June.
- Kelly Ho
- Senior Reporter
Apr 17, 2024 · Hong Kong’s government has revealed that it spent HK$9.17 million on rent, salaries and other expenses to fund former leader Carrie Lam’s office last year, a figure 32 per cent higher than the...
- Introduction
- Departmental budgets
- Economic analysis of budgets
- Trends in public spending
- Public sector spending by function, sub-function and economic category
- Central government own expenditure
- Local government financing and expenditure
- Public corporations
- Public expenditure by country and additional information
This National Statistics release is intended to provide comprehensive information on public spending. Data are arranged thematically by section. Each section contains overview commentary on the statistics being released, statistical tables, and further background information.
The key data being updated in this release are for the years 2018-19 to 2022-23. This release contains the first estimate of 2022-23 outturn. All data in this release are National Statistics and are on an outturn basis. Where major revisions to the data for past years have been made we refer to them in the text accompanying the tables. Further background detail is found in the accompanying background material published alongside this release.
HM Treasury Public Spending Statistics provide a range of information about public spending. Further detailed explanations are provided in the PSS guidance document. This information can be found on the main release page. The release is classified as National Statistics and conforms to the rules and principles set out in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics overseen by the United Kingdom Statistics Authority.
A user survey gathering feedback on the outturn data presented in the Public Spending Statistics (PSS) National Statistics releases was launched with the July PSS 2022. This data also fed into the PESA outturn statistics. The consultation was split into three core sections: Accessing public spending statistics, use of data, and views on the presentation of data.
The survey found that users had an interest in using both PESA and the quarterly PSS releases, as well as other related HMT products (e.g. the Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) release).
As a result of the survey, we are reviewing options to publish the underlying data for the release alongside the PSS, in a format akin to the CRA database. Future updates and more detail will be provided in the Public Spending Statistics releases.
The tables for departmental budgets in chapter 1 bring together information on public expenditure within the current budgeting and control framework. This comprises departmental budgets, including all control totals, as well as reconciling from the budgetary framework to the fiscal aggregates in the National Accounts.
DEL expenditure in real terms (billions)
Resource DEL
Total resource DEL was £454.8 billion in 2022-23, compared to £469.6 billion in 2021-22, in nominal terms. Staff costs increased by 6.4 per cent in 2022-23 (to £161.5 billion) and gross current procurement rose by 3.6 per cent (to £159.0 billion). A breakdown of gross current procurement by individual departments is shown in table 2.2. Expenditure on grants to local government totalled £74.7 billion and subsidies to private sector companies totalled £3.0 billion in 2022-23, a decrease of 13.4 percent and 55.6 per cent, respectively. The large fall in subsidies reflects higher covid related spend in 2021-22 compared to 2022-23. The financing of local government expenditure is examined in more detail in chapter 7. Spending on administration, composed mainly of pay and procurement, stood at £12.3 billion in 2022-23. This is a rise of 5.5 per cent from the previous year.
Resource AME
Resource departmental AME decreased by £250.7 billion to £369.2 billion in 2022-23 in nominal terms. The largest component of spending within resource AME is made up of grants to persons and non-profit bodies, which is mainly social security benefits. Expenditure on this heading rose by 16.1 per cent to £275.3 billion in 2022-23 from £237.1 billion in the previous year. In table 2.1 for resource departmental AME, take up of provisions showed the largest decrease in 2022-23 of 200.8 per cent, with a total of -£180.2 billion down from £178.8 billion the previous year. This reflects a reduction in provisions by Energy Security and Net Zero on Nuclear Decommissioning. Depreciation increased to £136.7 billion from £57.2 billion in 2021-22. This reflects, in part, changes in the fair value of the Bank of England Asset Purchase Facility Fund (APF) within HM Treasury’s budget.
Capital budgets
Capital spending within budgets was £134.2 billion in 2022-23, an increase of 20.9 per cent on the previous year. The majority of capital spending occurred within DEL. Within capital budgets, gross capital procurement increased by £10.4 billion and capital support for local government decreased by £0.5 billion in 2022-23. These are broken down by department in Tables 2.3 and 7.3 respectively. Capital grants to private sector companies increased by £5.2 billion in 2022-23. Net lending and investment to the private sector and abroad increased by £2.6 billion to £27.5 billion in 2022-23.
The tables in chapter 4 show trends in public spending on a longer run basis than other chapters in this release, in nominal, real (inflation-adjusted) and percentage of GDP terms.
Table 4.1 shows long run trends in Total Managed Expenditure (TME) and its Public Sector Current Expenditure (PSCE) and Public Sector Net Investment (PSNI) components back to 1981-82.
•The tables in chapter 5 of this release present analysis of total public sector expenditure on services split by function, sub-function and economic category.
•Year on year changes on a functional basis as described below are derived from tables 4.2 or 5.4, whilst sub-functional changes year on year are derived from table 5.2.
The tables in chapter 6 of Public Spending Statistics (PSS) present analyses of central government own expenditure. This is spending by government departments and other central government bodies on their own activities. Central government support for local government and capital support for public corporations is not included.
•Tables 6.1 to 6.3 show central government expenditure on a budgeting basis, consistent with the data shown in chapters 1 and 2.
Chapter 7 analyses central government support for local government within budgets (tables 7.1 to 7.3) and local government expenditure on services (tables 7.4 to 7.8). It deals primarily with Great Britain, as most equivalent spending in Northern Ireland is central government spending carried out by Northern Ireland departments.
Chapter 8 analyses the impact of public corporations on departmental budgets and expenditure on services.
Tables 8.1 and 8.2 examine the impact on departmental budgets (DEL and departmental AME), breaking this down by economic category and departmental group.
Tables 8.3 to 8.5 analyse capital spending by public corporations. They break the expenditure down by individual public corporations as well as by function and economic category. Debt interest payments to the private sector, which is the only public corporation current spending that forms part of Total Managed Expenditure (TME), is also included.
•Public corporations’ capital expenditure was £12.7 billion in 2022-23, up from £6.5 billion the year before.
•Out of this total, expenditure by the Housing Revenue Account (for England, Scotland and Wales) was £6.3 billion, up from £5.3 billion the previous year.
•The other main contributors to public corporations’ capital expenditure were London Underground (as Transport Trading Limited) and Scottish Water.
Country and regional analysis in this release
The Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) is published each autumn. As a result there are no new substantive data on regional spending for this PSS release. However, the four headline tables of the CRA release published in November 2022 have been included in chapter 9.
Revised Government spending plans for 2022/23 (1 MB , PDF) Download full report. Votes to approve the Supplementary Estimates for 2022/23 have been scheduled for 8 March 2023. These will cover the Government's revised spending plans for this year.
The Government published its initial spending plans for 2022-23 on 23 June 2022, in the Main Estimate 2022-23. This updated an initial publication from the 12 May 2022, to incorporate additional spending announced by the Government in the “Cost of Living Support” package on 26 May 2023.
Mar 30, 2023 · This briefing sets out the current (2022/23) rates of Members' pay and ministerial salaries. It provides background to recent changes. It also notes changes in the rules relating to and budget limits for Members' expenses since 2010.
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The government spends huge amounts of money each year on our behalf. In 2022–23, UK government spending was almost £1,200 billion, or around £17,000 per person. This was equivalent to around 45% of GDP.
