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The United Kingdom national debt is the total quantity of money borrowed by the Government of the United Kingdom at any time through the issue of securities by the British Treasury and other government agencies. At the end of March 2023, UK general government gross debt was £2,537.0 billion, or 100.5% gross domestic product. [2]
Borrowing between March and December 2024 stands at £129.9bn, which is £8.9bn more than for the same period a year earlier. The total amount the government owes is called the national debt.
The ONS said surging levels of inflation sent interest payments on government debt to a May record of £7.6 billion. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
The national debt servicing cost is 50% more than the £5.1bn forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility. Interest spikes UK debt to record £7.6bn in May Skip to main content
For the financial year 2023–24, total government spending is expected to be £1,189 billion. [2] The UK government has spent more than it has raised in taxation since financial year 2001–02, [3] creating a budget deficit and leading to growing debt interest payments.
Economic growth of 1.8% was predicted for 2024, rising to 2.5% in 2025 then falling slightly to 2.1% in 2026. The UK's rate of inflation was predicted to fall to 2.9% by the end of 2023, down from 10.7% in the final three months of 2022, while underlying debt was forecast to be 92.4% of GDP in 2023, rising to 93.7% in 2024.
An Act to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources for the years ending 31 March 2023 and 2024 (including, for the year ending 31 March 2023, income); to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland of certain sums for the service of those years; to authorise the use of those sums for specified ...
The added monthly drawdowns are helping the UK’s national debt to balloon. It now stands at about £2.8 trillion, or £2,800 billion. It now stands at about £2.8 trillion, or £2,800 billion.