"Figure 1: Cumulative public sector net borrowing (excluding public sector banks) by month UK","" "","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","Full financial year (April 2015 - March 2016)","Full financial year (April 2016 to March 2017)","Monthly borrowing April 2016 to March 2017" "Apr","9.4","9.2","9.2" "May","16.9","16.1","7.0" "Jun","24.6","21.1","5.0" "Jul","26.6","21.7","0.6" "Aug","35.3","28.8","7.1" "Sep","43.2","35.5","6.7" "Oct","53.7","43.2","7.7" "Nov","65.1","52.2","9.0" "Dec","72.3","57.1","4.8" "Jan","63.3","46.0","-11.0" "Feb","67.9","45.6","-0.4" "Mar","72.1","48.7","3.1"