Where your money goes
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About this site

Last updated . Figures refresh every night. How each figure is worked out.

Where your money goes is published by Tekstak Ltd, an independent UK company. It explains what fuel and energy cost in the UK and how much of that is tax, using figures pulled nightly from official sources: DESNZ, HMRC, Ofgem, the ONS, the Bank of England, Eurostat and the European Commission. There is no advertising, no party affiliation and no sponsorship.

Key figures

  • 484Data sources read on every nightly run From 136 publishers
  • 3,175Pages, each answering one question Every figure dated and sourced
  • 6Corrections logged Dated, and never deleted
  • 0Adverts, sponsors or affiliate links Analytics only if you accept it

What is this site?

A set of plain answers to questions people actually ask about UK fuel and energy costs, each built around a figure that is current rather than remembered. Every number on the site is generated from data on each nightly run; nothing is typed into a template. Where a figure has no machine-readable source, it lives in a config file with a link and the date a person last checked it, and that date is printed next to the figure.

484 official data sources, from 136 publishers, are read on every nightly run. Last night’s run shows which worked.

Who publishes it?

Tekstak Ltd, a UK company. You can reach us at hello@whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk for corrections, questions or data requests. We also publish UK tax calculators.

How is it funded, and what does it collect?

There is no advertising on this site, no affiliate links and no sponsored content. We use Google Analytics to count visits, but only if you accept analytics cookies: until you choose, and if you reject, nothing is sent to Google. Advertising cookies are never used. Privacy and cookies sets out what is collected and how to change your choice.

0 adverts, sponsored pieces or affiliate links, on any page, and no advertising cookies.

Can you use the figures?

The figures belong to the bodies that published them, mostly Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence, and you can reuse them on their terms. Only our own words, analysis, charts and derived calculations are ours, published under CC BY 4.0: republish them, including commercially, as long as you credit Tekstak Ltd and link back. The data page lists every source's licence, with CSV and JSON downloads, field definitions and an embeddable widget that updates itself.

How can you check what we say?

  • Every figure links to the body that published it.
  • Every figure shows the date of the observation behind it, not the date you are reading.
  • A figure whose source has stopped updating is marked, rather than quietly shown as current.
  • The status page shows last night's run: which sources worked and which did not.
  • The methodology page sets out every calculation.
  • The corrections log records anything we have got wrong.

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