You asked
What is the aggregate wage-earner discretionary spending percentage if spread across each tax band, please expressed as a time series?
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The information you have requested can be obtained from the customer services team of the ONS Social Survey Division. You may order special extracts and tabulations of data from them, subject to legal frameworks, disclosure controls, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate. If you would like to enquire about these services, then please contact: socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk
As this information is already available to you via this route, we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.
The following tables from the Living Costs and Food Survey (LCF) are available consistently from 2001 onwards and may be of interest to you. Please note that this information will not directly fulfil your request as we cannot produce expenditure by tax bands.
Household expenditure as a percentage of total expenditure by gross income decile group, UK
Household expenditure as a percentage of total expenditure by disposable income decile group, UK