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Public sector net borrowing, excluding public sector banks (£ million)
£ 28,005 million
2021 MAR
- Release date:
- 23 April 2021
- Next release:
- 25 May 2021
Public sector finances, UK: March 2021
What's in the bulletin?
- This release presents the first provisional estimates of UK public sector finances for the latest full financial year ending (FYE) March 2021; these are not final figures and they will be revised over the coming months as we replace our initial estimates with provisional and then final outturn data, and as more information on the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic becomes available.
- Public sector net borrowing (excluding public sector banks, PSNB ex) in the FYE March 2021 is estimated to have been £303.1 billion, £246.1 billion more than in the FYE March 2020 and the highest nominal public sector borrowing in any financial year since records began in the FYE March 1947.
- Expressed as a ratio of gross domestic product (GDP), public sector net borrowing (excluding public sector banks, PSNB ex) in the FYE March 2021 was 14.5%, the highest such ratio since the end of World War Two, when in FYE March 1946 it was 15.2%.
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Time series related to Public sector finance
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£ 28,005 million 2021 MAR
- Release date:
- 23 April 2021
- Next release:
- 25 May 2021
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£ 17,697 million 2021 MAR
- Release date:
- 23 April 2021
- Next release:
- 25 May 2021
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£ 10,308 million 2021 MAR
- Release date:
- 23 April 2021
- Next release:
- 25 May 2021
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£ 2,141.7 bn 2021 MAR
- Release date:
- 23 April 2021
- Next release:
- 25 May 2021
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97.7 % 2021 MAR
- Release date:
- 23 April 2021
- Next release:
- 25 May 2021
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£ 25,226 m 2021 MAR
- Release date:
- 23 April 2021
- Next release:
- 25 May 2021
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Public sector finances time series
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Public sector finances tables 1 to 10: Appendix A
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Public sector current receipts: Appendix D
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Public sector finances borrowing by sub-sector
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Government deficit and debt return
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Public sector finances, UK: March 2021
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EU Government Deficit and Debt Return: September 2014
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Recent and upcoming changes to public sector finance statistics
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Wider measures of public sector net debt
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