HM Treasury · Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2025 · £ billion, 2024-25 prices

Public sector debt interest, real terms

Public sector debt interest, real terms: Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2025LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour05010020052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: £54bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2004: £56.2bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2005: £60.8bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2006: £63.4bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2007: £67.5bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2008: £71.7bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2009: £73.1bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2010: £65.2bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2011: £82.8bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2012: £85.3bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2013: £78bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2014: £76.5bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2015: £72.6bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2016: £73.6bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2017: £74.6bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2018: £79.5bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2019: £71.2bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2020: £68.2bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2021: £49.6bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2022: £85.7bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2023: £143.5bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2024: £131.7bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025Year ending March 2025: £124.7bn £ billion, 2024-25 prices · published 17 July 2025

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Source: HM Treasury, Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2025, chapter 4: expenditure by function, PESA 2025 (published 17 July 2025). Data presentation: Civometry.

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