Institute for Government

Average annual real-terms change in departmental spending at spending reviews, 1998–2021, and current government plans until 2029

Source: Institute for Government analysis of successive HM Treasury multi-year spending review documents. Notes: The change in 'Day-to-day minus health, defence, education and aid' between 2024/25 and 2028/29 is a different measure to the changes in unprotected spending in the same period discussed elsewhere in this document to make the data comparable across many spending reviews. 'Current government plans' refer to the spending commitments expressed in the 2024 spring budget and costings from the 2024 Labour party manifesto. Get the data Embed