Question follow-through · 43316
Public Expenditure
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what Government spending as a proportion of GDP was on 31 March 2022.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what Government spending as a proportion of GDP was on 31 March 2022.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Office for Budget Responsibility publishes historical outturn data going back to 1948 for Total Managed Expenditure as a percentage of GDP as part of its Public finances databank.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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