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Public Expenditure

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 8 April 2025UIN 43316

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what Government spending as a proportion of GDP was on 31 March 2022.

Answered by Darren Jones

The Office for Budget Responsibility publishes historical outturn data going back to 1948 for Total Managed Expenditure as a percentage of GDP as part of its Public finances databank.

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