SMALL PARTYObservedProvisional
Public sector net borrowing, FY to July
£56.7bn
£2.3bn above OBR forecast
Source: Public sector finances, UK: July 2026 — Office for National Statistics, published
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The fiscal ledger
No number without a source.
No saving without a mechanism.
£— means not yet costed, not zero. 4 maintained figures are still unsupported, so a net position would be misleading.
Fiscal release 1.2.0
Published . New spending, tax changes, cashable savings and other revenue are shown separately. Blank figures stay blank until the underlying work exists.
These are observed UK public-finance measurements from the evidence pack, not money available to fund our policies and not a costing of them. Each release is provisional and may be revised.
ObservedProvisional
£56.7bn
£2.3bn above OBR forecast
Source: Public sector finances, UK: July 2026 — Office for National Statistics, published
ObservedProvisional
£2,984.9bn
Source: Public sector finances, UK: July 2026 — Office for National Statistics, published
ObservedProvisional
94.1%
Source: Public sector finances, UK: July 2026 — Office for National Statistics, published
| Item | Type | Amount | Basis and confidence | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New spending from published policy commitmentsPolicy: All published policies | New spending | UnknownThe published policies do not yet provide a supported cost figure. | Annual, once implemented; implementation dates are not yet specifiedBaseline: Current UK government policy and spending; a dated fiscal baseline has not yet been selectedPrices: Not yet establishedConfidence: low | Small Party policy collectionAccessed 2026-08-26Assumptions: No numeric value is inferred from an absent costing. Economic effects are not treated as cash revenue. |
| Tax changes from published policy commitmentsPolicy: All published policies | Tax change | UnknownThe published policies do not yet provide a supported tax_change figure. | Annual, once implemented; implementation dates are not yet specifiedBaseline: Current UK government policy and spending; a dated fiscal baseline has not yet been selectedPrices: Not yet establishedConfidence: low | Small Party policy collectionAccessed 2026-08-26Assumptions: No numeric value is inferred from an absent costing. Economic effects are not treated as cash revenue. |
| Cashable savings from published policy commitmentsPolicy: All published policies | Saving | UnknownThe published policies do not yet provide a supported saving figure. | Annual, once implemented; implementation dates are not yet specifiedBaseline: Current UK government policy and spending; a dated fiscal baseline has not yet been selectedPrices: Not yet establishedConfidence: low | Small Party policy collectionAccessed 2026-08-26Assumptions: No numeric value is inferred from an absent costing. Economic effects are not treated as cash revenue. |
| Revenue from published policy commitmentsPolicy: All published policies | Revenue | UnknownThe published policies do not yet provide a supported revenue figure. | Annual, once implemented; implementation dates are not yet specifiedBaseline: Current UK government policy and spending; a dated fiscal baseline has not yet been selectedPrices: Not yet establishedConfidence: low | Small Party policy collectionAccessed 2026-08-26Assumptions: No numeric value is inferred from an absent costing. Economic effects are not treated as cash revenue. |
The funding position is tax changes plus savings plus other revenue, minus new spending. We calculate it only when every maintained record has a supported amount. Unknown values remain unknown and are never converted to numeric zero.
The observed borrowing and debt figures above describe the government finances inherited by any programme. They are context only: borrowing is a flow, debt is a stock, and neither is scored as Small Party funding.
Amounts use the timeframe, baseline and price basis shown against each item. A saving counts only when its delivery mechanism and cashable effect are identified. Wider economic effects do not count as revenue without a stated method. Confidence describes support for an estimate, not its desirability.
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