"Figure 6: Central government current expenditure continued to rise substantially compared with the same period last year","" "Central government current expenditure, UK, the current financial year-to-date (April to August 2020) compared with the financial year ending March 2020 (April 2019 to March 2020)","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","Cumulative current expenditure - April 2019 to March 2020","Cumulative current expenditure - April to August 2020","Monthly current expenditure - April 2019 to March 2020","Monthly current expenditure - April to August 2020" "Apr","64.6","100.8","64.6","100.8" "May","123.4","188.6","58.8","87.8" "Jun","185.9","265.5","62.5","76.9" "Jul","249.9","336.2","64.1","70.6" "Aug","308.9","414.6","59.0","78.5" "Sep","368.7","","59.8","" "Oct","433.6","","64.9","" "Nov","490.8","","57.2","" "Dec","550.8","","60.0","" "Jan","613.0","","62.2","" "Feb","671.4","","58.3","" "Mar","738.2","","66.9",""