{"id":6652,"date":"2026-04-17T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=6652"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:02:55","slug":"government-spending-uk-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=6652","title":{"rendered":"Government Spending. UK Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-3.png 740w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-3-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-3-624x488.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of [<a href=\"https:\/\/obr.uk\/forecasts-in-depth\/brief-guides-and-explainers\/public-finances\/\">A brief guide to the public finances &#8211; Office for Budget Responsibility<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4-1024x571.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4-624x348.png 624w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-4.png 1083w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-guidance-and-methodology\/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-information-and-guidance\">Guidance and methodology: Benefit expenditure and caseload tables &#8211; GOV.UK<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Salient points:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1]. \u00a3138bn of borrowing to bridge the gap from Tax Revenue into HM Treasury and HM Government spending is <strong>\u00a311.5bn a month<\/strong>. Yes, the Government has to borrow \u00a311.5bn a month as tax revenues are not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2]. Government spending on Welfare = \u00a3322bn and total Government spending of \u00a31370bn means: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(\u00a3322bn\/1370bn) = <strong><em>23.5% of all Government spending is on Welfare payments.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of [A brief guide to the public finances &#8211; Office for Budget Responsibility] Courtesy of [Guidance and methodology: Benefit expenditure and caseload tables &#8211; GOV.UK] Salient points:- [1]. \u00a3138bn of borrowing to bridge the gap from Tax Revenue into HM Treasury and HM Government spending is \u00a311.5bn a month. Yes, the Government has to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6655,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions\/6655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}