Every pound the state takes from you, and everything it does with it.
Follow the money
£1,182bn central government spending, 2024-25
The maps
- Open the map coloured by
- Council tax
- Council spending per resident
- NHS waiting list
- Road condition
- School funding
- Crime
- England, Scotland and Wales: up to £2,255
- England, Scotland and Wales: over £2,541
- Northern Ireland: up to 0.4425p per £
- Northern Ireland: over 0.5412p per £
- No data
- England: up to £1,030
- England: over £1,257
- Scotland: up to £1,240
- Scotland: over £1,549
- Wales: up to £1,714
- Wales: over £1,934
- Northern Ireland: up to £486
- Northern Ireland: over £605
- No data
- England: up to 103.2
- England: over 128.3
- Scotland: up to 101.9
- Scotland: over 129.4
- Wales: up to 205.2
- Wales: over 242.3
- Northern Ireland: up to 248.2
- Northern Ireland: over 469.3
- No data
- England: up to 3%
- England: over 6%
- Scotland: up to 3%
- Scotland: over 6%
- Northern Ireland: up to 1.7%
- Northern Ireland: over 3.0%
- Wales: not published
- No data
- England: up to £6,423
- England: over £6,834
- Scotland: up to £7,976
- Scotland: over £9,141
- Wales: up to £6,315
- Wales: over £6,928
- Northern Ireland: not published
- No data
- England, Wales and Northern Ireland: up to 64.0
- England, Wales and Northern Ireland: over 95.1
- Scotland: its own measure, one area
- No data
Start with your postcode
Yours
Every subject on the site
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Fuel tax47% of a litre is tax
- Income tax and NI£527.8bn a year
- VAT on the shopping£179.9bn a year
- Your council tax bill£2,411 Band D, England
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What’s in an energy bill£1,723 a year, typical
- Drink and tobacco duty£20.0bn a year
- Running a car£24.6bn fuel duty a year
- Buying and leaving property£23.6bn a year
- Fines and charges4,375,421 motoring penalties
- Passports, MOTs, licences£102 an adult passport
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Every other tax31 taxes
- What it actually buys£21 of every £100 on health
- The NHS£257.5bn a year
- Police and crime£55.7bn a year
- Benefits, both ways£9.9bn over, £1.2bn under
- Debt and borrowing£130.3bn interest a year
- Who rescues you free£559m a year from charity
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What changes next28 announced changes
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2,290,449Every payment your council makesPayments over £500
- MPs’ expenses£275,197 an MP, average
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350Council report cardsA card for every council
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457Take the data awaySeries as CSV and JSON