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Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses
PESA objectives
Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) is the regular publication of information on government spending. PESA has two main objectives and is therefore based on two datasets:
- Budgets: To provide information on government spending plans and outturn expressed in terms of budgeting aggregates. The Government uses the budgeting framework for expenditure planning and control.
- Total Expenditure on Services: To present statistical analysis of public expenditure based on a Total Expenditure on Services framework (TES). This framework is more stable over time than the budgeting framework and closer to the National Accounts.
2011 PESA publications
The main annual PESA release comprises two separate documents:
- The National Statistics release of outturn data; and
- The PESA Command Paper published after and consistent with the National Statistics release, which additionally includes estimated outturn for the latest year and spending plans for the rest of the Spending Review period.
In addition to this the:
- National Statistics update release published in February, April and October; and the
- ONS publications hub for PESA National Statistics release dates (external website, opens in new window)
PESA (July) 2011 publication
The PESA National Statistics annual release is normally published once a year in the spring.
Exceptionally, this year we are publishing this release twice, in April and July, because of changes to the arrangement for the Treasury’s other spending publications.
This PESA (July) 2011 release includes outturn data for 10/11 for the first time, for all the tables apart from those in Section 4.
We will continue to publish the Quarterly National Statistics updates release - the next release will be in October.
Consistency of PESAs
Data in previous PESA editions may not be fully consistent with the latest release due to changes in data coverage and classification changes. PESA 2010 presents historical data adjusted to current definitions to show trends over a longer period.
We advise against splicing together multiple editions of PESA. Archived PESA publications can be found on the National Archives UK Government web archive (opens in new browser windon).
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