Government Departments: Procurement
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much Government departments have spent on procurement relating to both goods and services in total in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answered by Darren Jones
The Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) that were published in July 2024 shows budget aggregates and spending for 5 years of outturn and one plan year up to 2024-25. Chapter 2 of PESA includes several tables that show departmental budgets broken down by economic category. Table 2.2 for example shows totals for ‘Gross current procurement in budgets’ whilst table 2.3 shows totals for ‘Gross capital procurement in budgets’. Here is a link to the PESA 2024 dataset:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/public-expenditure-statistical-analyses-2024
The Public Spending Statistics (PSS) dataset was also published in July 2024 is similar to PESA but only covers the five years of outturn up to 2023-24. Included within the July 2024 PSS dataset is a database and associated pivot table in Excel format. From the pivot table it is possible to obtain the gross current and capital procurement totals as seen in tables 2.2 and 2.3 broken down by department group. Here is a link to the July 2024 PSS dataset:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/public-spending-statistics-release-july-2024
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