Average annual real-terms change in day-to-day departmental spending at spending reviews, 1998–2021, and government plans until 2030

Source: Institute for Government analysis of HM Treasury, Autumn Budget 2024 (‘Table 1.9: Resource departmental expenditure limits (DEL) excluding depreciation’) and successive HM Treasury multi-year spending review documents.Notes: Day-to-day spending refers to RDEL. The change in 'Total minus health, defence, education and aid' between 2024/25 and 2029/30 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 spending reviews. 'Previous plans' refers to spending plans the previous government had pencilled in for 2024/25 onwards.Get the dataEmbed Download image