Public Sector: Pay

(asked on 28th June 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of government expenditure has been spent on public sector pay in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 4th July 2017

The Proportion of Government Expenditure spent on public sector pay in each of the last five years is as follows:

National Statistics

£million

2011-12 outturn

2012-13 outturn

2013-14 outturn

2014-15 outturn

2015-16 outturn

Pay

165,995

164,135

163,627

167,173

171,859

Total Managed Expenditure (2)

716,170

731,993

736,886

751,988

753,878

Pay as proportion of TME

23.18%

22.42%

22.21%

22.23%

22.80%

(2) This excludes the temporary effects of banks being classified to the public sector.

Source: Public Spending Statistics May 2017 (National Statistics)

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