Tag: government debt

Chart of the Week: Week 18, 2016: Historical UK Government Debt

The public sector finances for the financial year 2015/16 were recently released, showing that Public Sector Net Borrowing (excluding publicly owned banks) fell to £74bn (from £91.7bn in 2014/15).

Chart of the Week: Week 17, 2015: Historical UK Government Debt

Public sector finance data for the financial year 2014/15 was released at the end of last week, so we've updated our annual chart tracking historical UK government debt over the last 160 years.