Public spending by the UK's central government departments, 2010-2011

GP Department of Energy & [3] Prescriptions services £6.93bn Nuclear Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs NHS Decommissioning [9] £8.29bn £7.68bn +81.1% Climate Change Disability pension Authority See note scheme +1.3% -1.6% living allowance Housing Environment agency Natural England £0.213bn -20.6% Department for £6.9bn Low carbon UK £0.623bn -29.2% & attendance £0.832bn +4.2% £2.82bn International Development benefit Environmental risk and emergencies Environment £0.865bn -16.3% Dental Promoting low carbon technologies allowance +0.18% £1.021bn -4.6% Department £0.267bn -15.9% in developing countries £0.279bn +159.5% Pension £17.17bn £21.61bn Primary £8.06bn Rural payments agency £0.228bn -40.8% Professional support & infrastructure credit +0.7% £2.69bn +146.0% £0.118bn -7.6% +5.0% Food supply £0.003bn -31.2% healthcare Pharmacy Sub-Saharan Africa £8.18bn -15.22% Sustainable consumption & production £0.122bn -40.8% £1.76bn +11.1% Historic energy liabilities £0.104bn -106.8% Sustainable development £0.008bn +2.9% £1.98bn -3.1% -2.3% Farming £0.093bn -12.2% Energy £0.087bn +3.3% State pensions £21.37bn Africa Climate change £0.018bn -23.2% Rural communities £0.073bn -10.4% £1.87bn +10.1% Coal authority £0.071bn +87.0% Income -0.54% support Royal botanic gardens, Kew £0.025bn -16.8% Forestry commission £0.045bn -11.0% International agreement on Opthalmic Asia £1.09bn -2.5% £7.78bn Marine management organisation climate change £0.005bn +22.4% £69.78bn £0.032bn +0.9% NHS £0.48bn Committee on climate -9.8% -0.7% Americas £0.073bn +8.9% Country change £0.004bn +12.2% General & acute £3.18bn +1.31% Office of rail regulation (ORR) £0.028bn -11.0% £87.61bn programmes -22.1% Europe £0.018bn -16.8% UK atomic energy Incapacity benefit & £38.91bn Pacific £0.003bn +19.6% authority pension scheme employment & £7.76bn +1.29% +1.9% Overseas territories £0.2bn support allowance +12.7% Benefit spending £0.059bn +14.7% Health protection agency Independent Parliamentary £7.69bn Commonwealth & in Great Britain £0.177bn -25.1% Standards Authority[8] £0.126bn Debt interest [1] +12.65% overseas territories New department £1.65bn +14.8% Other Secondary Debt relief House of Commons £5.86bn £43.90bn health care £0.066bn +24.0% European Commission £0.164bn -9.9% £152.35bn Community United Nations £1.27bn +3.8% +36.2% (hospitals etc) health House of Lords £0.355bn +59.5% World Bank £0.077bn -22.3% +0.60% £8.41bn £0.927bn +60.8% Council Department £66.10bn +2.5% National Audit Office tax benefit [5] £0.069bn +7.9% £4.97bn +2.08% +2.8% of Health Mental Foreign and illness Jobseeker's £4.50bn £8.37bn Commonwealth Office -6.8% Office of communications (Ofcom) [7] allowance A & E £2.22bn +0.7% £2.25bn -3.0% [6] £105.60bn +5.3% from government funding £2.75bn £3.06bn (rest from licence fees) Teachers' £2.53bn Other Peacekeeping grants -2.3% Statutory maternity pay Maternity £2.58bn +6.6% contractual Winter fuel Department for Work pension +2.2% £0.122bn -13.1% £0.408bn +10.7% payments £1.99bn -3.1% +0.28% scheme +0.5% UN & other international & Pensions [4] £7.5bn organisations £0.294bn -0.2% Learning Admin & embassies difficulties BBC World Service £0.265bn -4.3% £1.09bn -3.9% £5.86bn Department for Culture British Council -8.7% Investment in £0.189bn Non-departmental bodies £0.006bn -2.9% £160.68bn -13.2 % school buildings Media & Sport Total spending, 2010/2011 BBC £2.96bn Conflict prevention programme -8.7% Grants £0.106bn -6.4% Schools £1.81bn Lottery grants Academies Royal parks £0.019bn -11.5% +0.4% +0.21% £2.08bn +58.8% Ceremonial & heritage £0.025bn +25.0% Arts £0.455bn -1.57% Crime & £52.81bn Principal civil Tourism £0.042bn -14.1% £7.02bn Arts council £0.438bn -6.0% Home Office policing £5.1bn service pension +1.12% School meals Libraries sponsored bodies £0.133bn -3.9% -0.7% Museums & galleries £0.427bn -2.6% £5.6bn scheme £0.006bn -55.2% Tate gallery £0.055bn -5.1% UK border agency -3.2% British library £0.106bn -6.1% £691.67bn Free schools Natural history museum £1.70bn -3.4% Broadcasting and media £0.151bn +0.9% £0.006bn £0.049bn -7.8% Equipment S4C £0.100bn -4.5% British museum £0.046bn -6.9% Police pensions Sport £0.193bn -13.4% Olympics Victoria & Albert museum & support £0.044bn -3.8% £1.44bn -7.2% £10.45bn Armed forces Sport England £0.121bn -12.3% £0.362bn Criminal records bureau £0.001bn +116.5% pension scheme +0.34% change after -12.7 % NM Liverpool £0.024bn -1.9% £22.77bn Office for security & +-7.69% National fraud authority £0.004bn -1.0% Learning and skills council counter-terrorism (excluding sixth form funding) Identity & passport service £0.005bn -94.7% +31.7% Department £0.808bn -3.7% £3.6bn inflation on 2009/10 Health & social Government equalities office £0.012bn -19.4% for £6.03bn £6.61bn services AME charges £0.399bn +367.2% European solidarity mechanism £0.022bn Education +2.3% Sixth forms (through +5.21% Food standards agency Central services £0.204bn -22.6% Area-based grants £0.071bn -14.5% Army Learning and skills council) £2.18bn -4.0% £4.47bn Social justice & £0.072bn -41.7% £7.29bn -1.73% Local government Water services regulation authority +6.7% £58.34bn Early years Devolved Ministry of Justice Ministry of £2.14bn +9.0% Children, education, (Ofwat) £0.017bn -3.4% -0.24% spending lifelong learning & skills Prisons & probation (National [6] £4.22bn Defence Defence Wales £2.19bn +0.8% Criminal legal aid £1.22bn +7.8% -11.0% Offender Management Service) Sure Start (including estates childcare & nursery funding) £4.66bn £15.87bn £2.12bn +10.3% Economy & transport HM Courts Service £0.999bn +25.3% +25.0% £39.46bn Chief, joint ops Operations & -3.92% £1.05bn -40.0% peace-keeping £0.047bn -89.9% Children & families -1.95% Admin £2.0bn -31.3% Civil legal aid £0.921bn -6.8% Rural Environment, sustainability £9.46bn £2.89bn War pensions £0.25bn Northern Ireland Office (NIO) Parole board £0.010bn +11.7% HM Revenue Workforce training & development affairs & housing £0.794bn +5.8% Policy, corporate services & +1.0% Afghanistan £3.77bn +4.7% £0.935bn -7.3% -28.5% £1.04bn -6.6% £0.039bn +0.9% HM courts & tribunals service [8] £0.134bn Heritage Associated offices £0.917bn +51.1% -4.1% Department of & Customs Office for standards £0.012bn -93.8% Admin Education, standards, -14.7% £0.183bn -3.8% Iraq £2.84bn curriculum & qualifications In education (Ofsted) Wales Office (WO) Youth justice board £0.467bn -6.2% Central funds £0.078bn -14.3% -1.9% £2.03bn -8.1% Communities £0.095bn -73.1% £2.31bn £0.63bn -24.5% £0.182bn -12.5% Northern Ireland human rights £0.0050bn -12.1% Criminal injuries compensation authority £2.63bn £45.78bn Legal services commission administration Libya -6.2% +0.7% and Local Commission £0.0016bn -4.0% £0.426bn +312.5% £0.136bn -0.1% Royal £0.022bn Air Government -1.09% Scotland Office (SO) Central Royal Devolved spending £4.5bn Judicial pension scheme Tribunals service Top judicial salaries Force Northern Ireland executive £0.0078bn -5.9% command Navy Spending by local Northern Ireland -1.1% £1bn £0.1bn £0.279bn -9.8% £0.143bn -3.6% Department for Transport & regional government £37.8bn Tax credits pension schemes Rail £2.93bn Other departments £0.022bn -0.6% £2.1bn Education London £2.77bn +1.3% £25.9bn -7.51% £28.09bn -5.1% Serious fraud office (SFO) £0.036bn -12.5% -41.1% Roads Child trust fund Agriculture & rural development £0.051bn -79.9% Health & £3.79bn -2.5% +23.08% Government actuary's department (GAD) £0.019bn +17.4% £0.23bn Northern Ireland Assembly £0.052bn +15.6% £9.05bn Regional development wellbeing Local authority -18.2% London £6.0bn -28.12% Child £1.07bn +30.9% Attorney general's office (see also LSLO) £0.0049bn -8.7% £1.17bn +0.5% £3.0bn governance Office of the first minister & deputy first minister -2.01% £12.29bn -38.5% benefit £0.090bn -11.1% HM crown prosecution service £12.32bn Renewable fuels agency £0.001bn +4.0% +90.8% £0.048bn -2.8% Employment and learning +14.4% Supported capital expenditure £12.05 bn Culture, arts and leisure £0.173bn -8.6% £0.837bn -0.02% inspectorate £0.0034bn -27.7% (Revenue) £0.975bn +5.0% Science, research & support functions £0.042bn -60.2% Local -18.3% Neighbourhoods Localism -1.9% Finance and personnel Social development Sustainable travel £0.115bn -19.1% Revenue & customs £0.198bn +5.8% £0.791bn +1.5% Government Buses £0.771bn -1.8% Aviation, maritime, security & safety £0.129bn -39.7% Prosecutions office (RCPO) Department Enterprise, trade & investment Environment £0.312bn +100.3% £10.52bn Olympics £0.236bn +12.9% Coastguard £0.132bn -11.1% £0.046bn -1.1% for Business, £0.273bn -7.8% -0.8% Cabinet Office Crossrail £0.220bn DVLA trading fund £0.187bn -20.4% Her Majesty’s Treasury [2] Devolved Admin £0.188bn -5.6% £1.678bn +870.0% Innovation and spending £0.570bn -7.47% Professional support Higher & Forestry commission (Scotland) £0.096bn -0.2% Financial stability £0.38bn -2.2% Skills Cabinet Office £0.206bn +2.3% Equitable Life payment scheme /financial further education Scottish courts service £0.098bn Scotland Finance and £1.49bn £24.04bn £3.20bn Office for civil society £0.192bn -17.6% Independent offices - civil service commissioners £0.001bn -29.5% institutions Office of fair trading (OFT) Free & fair markets sustainable £0.058bn -9.2% -11.52% £18.76bn Scottish parliament corporate body £0.102bn -4.2% -8.5% General election funding £0.102bn +4.1% Executive NDPBs (net) £0.002bn -39.9% Core treasury & group shared services £0.176bn -14.5% £13.79bn £0.72bn -7.6% £34.88bn growth Members of the European parliament (MEP) £0.002bn -54.8% Money in +3.2% Universities Executive non-departmental bodies £0.030bn -22.7% Coinage £0.034bn +17.9% UK trade & investment Crown office and procurator fiscal £0.120bn -2.1% Cabinet Office utilisation of provisions £0.003bn +1.5% Innovation & enterprise +2.95% Education & lifelong Directgov £0.023bn -15.7% UK debt management office (DMO) £0.015bn -9.0% (UKTI) £0.085bn -12.5% £14.09bn learning Constitution group £0.006bn -34.4% BoE dividend £0.063bn £1.36bn -16.1% Science Admin £0.264bn -6.0% Cabinet Office service concession - DEL +160.2% Banking & gilts registration services £0.011bn -11.0% +11.5% £2.88bn +0.2% £0.011bn Money in Postal services commission £5.86bn Office of the first minister Other functions £0.011bn -2.9% DMO £0.001bn -2.9% Charity commission for England and Wales £0.030bn -4.6% (Postcomm) £0.0082bn -2.1% -5.0% Further £4.67bn £0.267bn -2.1% Scottish teachers' & NHS Security and intelligence services Research education -15.8% pension schemes National school of government (NSG) £0.023bn £3.0bn Rural affairs & the £1.909bn +1.3% National savings and investments Office for Budget Responsibility councils -5.4% £2.52bn -9.2% Electoral commission £0.022bn -2.2% £0.162bn -1.1% £0.0017bn New department Environment £0.517bn -8.1% NOTES Justice £1.95bn +2.6% The figures give a picture of major expenditure but exclude local bytheir income, such as the Crown Estate or the Export Credits Guarantee ALL % CHANGES TAKE ACCOUNT OF INFLATION activities was to yield income to the Treasury. Loans to financial [3] The Rural Payments Agency distributes CAP payments — covered by [5] Excludes spending on family health services. GP running cost [7] The amount of government funding from BIS and DCMS, rest from legacy over the 100 years. It is NOT allocated for spending in one year. SOURCES: GUARDIAN DATA RESEARCH, DEPARTMENTAL RESOURCE ACCOUNTS, INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE government spending not controlled by central government. We don't Department. The totals here add up to more than the total budget, [1] Interest paid on the public debt. institutions were repaid to the Treasury in 2010-11 and there was no transfers from EU so do not show up as net spending here. includes salaries, hospitality budgets, home and overseas licence fees from broadcasters and media organisations. Excl. this DECC’s total expenditure for 2010/11 is therefore £3.16bn with STATISTICAL ANALYSES (PESA) have room to show everything — some programmes are just too small to because some of the smaller government departments are funded via the [2] Treasury spending in 2008-09 and 2009-10 was dominated by the further purchase of shares and other assets in the year — so we have [4] Benefit spending excludes child benefit, guardians' allowance, accommodation costs. [8] MPs’ expenses now administered by the Independent Parliamentary £1.7bn of that allocated to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority RESEARCH: SIMON ROGERS, AMI SEDGHI, GEMMA TETLOW go here, but this gives a flavour of where your tax pounds go. It also larger ones, such as the Parliamentary Counsel Office, funded via the impact of interventions in the financial sector — the figure shown here is shown the core department spending separately. The increase is due to widows’ pensions, statutory paternity pay, statutory [6] Totals absent from MoD annual report and supplied separately to Standards Authority (IPSA). excludes government departments that are predominantly financed Cabinet Office. gross spending. In fact, in 2010-11 the net effect of financial stability the provision for Equitable Life. adoption pay — these paid by HMRC, MoD, DBERR respectively. other figures by the department. [9] This includes increase of £5bn in est. liabilities for the UK’s nuclear Main pension schemes are forecasts for 2010-11 GRAPHIC: JENNY RIDLEY, MICHAEL ROBINSON