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Economic data & tools
The Treasury produces several statistics releases, statistical analyses, and statistical datasets.
This page lists the latest releases but you can find links to further data and background information on how they are produced, including information which demonstrates compliance with the standards set down by the UK Statistics Authority using the menu on the right hand-side of this page.
Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) is the regular publication of information on government spending.
PESA 2011 is now available. It presents analyses of public spending against budgeting and expenditure on services frameworks. These analyses cover public spending by department, function, economic category and country/region.
The PESA National Statistics release is normally published once a year in the spring. Exceptionally, in 2011 we published this release twice, in April and July, because of changes to the arrangement for the Treasury’s other spending publications.
We have now released launched the February 2012 Public Spending National Statistics, this release provides an update of the key series found in PESA 2011, alongside commentary and background on the data being released.
The Department for Work and Pensions published the annual report of the Family Resources Survey for 2008-09 in May 2010. The data that supports the annual report has enabled the Government to calculate progress in reducing the number of adults living in unbanked households, a key measure of financial inclusion.
Headline statistics, explanatory text and background information on the public sector finances are available in the document below. Additional information is available in excel files.
‘Main public sector finance tables’ includes latest and historical data for borrowing and debt. The ‘Central Government account’ Main public sector finance tables’ includes latest and historical data for borrowing and debt.
The ‘Central Government account’ compares the components of borrowing between this year and last and the ‘Borrowing and debt reconciliation’ tables show how the measures of borrowing and debt including and excluding the temporary effects of financial interventions are related.
The current legislative framework for Official Statistics in the UK was established in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007. This created the UK Statistics Authority, and required it to prepare and publish the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, and monitor and assess compliance against it. The UK Statistics Authority reports directly to Parliament. Further information can be found on their individual websites which can be accessed from the menu on the right hand-side of this page.
We seek to actively connect and engage with users of our statistics through a range of channels. In addition, we welcome comments and feedback from users of our statistics at the following email address: statistics-enquiries@hmtreasury.gsi.gov.uk
For further information please read our visit our statement on user engagement which can be found in the 'standards and policies for our Statistics' section of this website.
