"Figure 6: Central government current expenditure continues to rise substantially compared with the same period last year ","" "Central government current expenditure, UK, the current financial year-to-date (April to July 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 July 2020","Monthly current expenditure - April 2019 to March 2020","Monthly current expenditure - April to July 2020" "Apr","64.5","99.9","64.5","99.9" "May","123.2","187.5","58.7","87.7" "Jun","185.6","265.2","62.4","77.7" "Jul","249.0","342.9","63.4","77.6" "Aug","307.2","","58.3","" "Sep","366.3","","59.1","" "Oct","430.9","","64.5","" "Nov","487.7","","56.8","" "Dec","547.3","","59.7","" "Jan","609.5","","62.2","" "Feb","667.9","","58.4","" "Mar","734.8","","66.9",""