HM Treasury · Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2026, chapter 5: expenditure by sub-function
Spending on fire protection
£4.2bnmillion
Spending on fire protection was £4.2bn in the year ending March 2026, up 5.3% (£210m) from £4bn in the year ending March 2025.
▲ 5.3% · +£210m against Year ending March 2025 (previous period)
- HM Treasury count
- Year ending March 2026
- published 2 September 2026
- Table 5.2
- row “3.2 Fire-protection services”
- column “2025-26”
- cell value 4166
Year ending March 2021 to Year ending March 2026
What this measures
Public sector spending on fire-protection services in cash terms.
What this doesn’t measure
Spending by any one fire and rescue service.
Important caveat
PESA classifies spending by function using the UN COFOG framework, so "health" is every public body's spending on health services, not the Department of Health's budget, and "defence" follows COFOG rather than the NATO definition. Figures are outturn for the whole public sector including local government and public corporations. Cash figures rise with inflation; the real-terms table restates them at 2024-25 prices with the GDP deflator. Classification changes are footnoted in the table: student loans from 2011-12, Network Rail from 2011-12 and the treatment of EU transactions after 2020. Total managed expenditure includes accounting adjustments that are not allocated to any function.
Revision history
| Period | First published | Current | Revision | Releases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year ending March 2025 | £3.9bn | £4bn | +£13m (+0.3%) | 17 July 2025 → 2 September 2026 |
| Year ending March 2024 | £3.7bn | £3.7bn | +£15m (+0.4%) | 17 July 2025 → 2 September 2026 |
| Year ending March 2023 | £3.4bn | £3.4bn | +£43m (+1.3%) | 17 July 2025 → 2 September 2026 |
| Year ending March 2022 | £3.1bn | £3.1bn | +£7m (+0.2%) | 17 July 2025 → 2 September 2026 |
Source
- Publisher
- HM Treasury
- Publication
- Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2026, chapter 5: expenditure by sub-function
- Release
- 2026-09-02, published 2 September 2026
- Source file
- PESA_2026_CP_Chapter_5_tables.xlsx
- File SHA-256
- ccb4539bb837c2b6a7f9509da49bd409eb9e5a910f3332311b494291fbd33107
- Retrieved
- 4 September 2026
- Sheet
- 5_2
- Table
- Table 5.2
- Row
- 3.2 Fire-protection services
- Column
- 2025-26
- Cell value
- 4166
- Geography
- United Kingdom
- Unit
- £ million
- API
- /api/metrics/spend_fire · /series · /vintages
Government periods
Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.
| Labour 2024– | £3.7bnYear ending March 2024 | £4.2bnYear ending March 2026 | ↑ 13.2% |
- Release
- 2026-09-02 · publication page
- Last updated
- 2 September 2026
- Next release expected
- Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)