Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2010

01 July 2010

PESA brings together recent outturn data, estimates for the latest year plus spending plans for the rest of the current spending review period. PESA presents spending against two Treasury-defined frameworks:

Key budgeting and functional spending data from PESA are updated three times a year through press notices and publication on the Treasury website. The data are released in accordance with the National Statistics Code of Practice.

PESA is available to download in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website. For alternative ways to read PDF documents and further information on website accessibility visit the HM Treasury accessibility page.

Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) 2010 complete document, including Annexes (1.3MB)

PESA consists of four main sections, which are divided up into separate chapters. Each chapter contains a number of tables that are either based on the budgeting or the expenditure on services (TES) framework. Additional information about each section can be found when following the links.

Budgets: Chapters 1 to 3
All tables are based on the budgeting framework.
Public Sector Spending: Chapters 4 and 5
All tables are based on the expenditure on services framework.
Sectoral Analyses: Chapters 6 to 8
Tables 6.1-6.3, 7.1-7.3 and 8.1-8.2 are based on budgets. The remainder follow TES.
Country and Regional Analyses: Chapters 9 and 10
All tables are based on TES.

Consistency of PESA editions

Due to changes in data coverage and classification, we advise against the splicing of PESA 2010 with previous PESA publications.

Budgets

The Government uses budgeting aggregates to plan and control expenditure. These aggregates are Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME). DEL are firm plans for three years for a specific part of a department’s expenditure. AME is spending in TME that is generally less predictable and controllable than expenditure in DEL. These aggregates are reconciled to a measure of total public sector spending - Total Managed Expenditure (TME), which is drawn from the National Accounts.

Downloadable data on Budgets

Public sector spending

Functional spending is based on the expenditure on services framework (TES), which broadly represents the total current and capital spending of the public sector. It therefore includes spending by departments, the devolved administrations, local government and the capital spending of public corporations. The allocation of public spending to function is generally consistent with the United Nations’ Classification Of the Functions Of Government (UN COFOG).

TES is also broken down by economic categories, such as pay, procurement and grants.

Downloadable data on Public sector spending

Sectoral analyses

The sectoral analyses, which follow ONS sector classifications (link), comprises:

Central government own expenditure by government departments and other central government bodies on their own activities. Devolved administrations and non-departmental public bodies are included in central government.
Local government financing and expenditure describes central government’s support for local government and local government’s own spending. Great Britain is primarily covered in these analyses- where appropriate, district council spending Northern Ireland is included.
Public corporations expenditure show central government support to public corporations and public corporations’ capital spending.

Downloadable data on Sectoral analyses

Country and regional analyses (CRA)

PESA provides information on spending by country and English region based on the expenditure on services framework (TES). The regional allocation is defined by the location of individuals and enterprises that benefited from public spending. The information that feeds into these analyses is gathered in a separate data collection exercise in the winter preceding the publication of PESA.

Downloadable data on CRA

House of Lords Select Committee on the Barnett Formula

The following tables provide Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) reconciliation of each Devolved Administration between the settlement arising from the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review and the data published in PESA 2010, tables 1.3 and 1.6 of chapter 1.

This additional detail is published in response to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Barnett Formula.