Tax year: April 6 2014 to April 5 2015 Your taxes and public spending
This shows a break down of how your taxes have been or will be spent by government.
The biggest items are not accounted as an insurance-like service, paid-for at one point in life and claimed at another; there is no fund that pays for pensions for example.
The smaller item of transport is the same - a problem with a lot of national statistics - in presenting a neat aggregate figure but leaving-out the nitty-gritty. Isn't there a road fund? Maybe there is another page on Gov.uk that I haven't stumbled-on yet to explain these things.
The smallest items are a puzzle. How come money is being spent at overseas aid to the country where Rana Plaza is based, when tariffs aren't used to make that country better governed?
Lastly, the figures seem to continue year-on year, even when there is a crisis in the higher priority areas. If street lamps are turned off, your granny might get mugged. If social care is turned-off, as it has been, she will definately get mugged or similar, and then become a bed blocker in a hospital. That doesn't stop government from having a budget called "sport", which is obscene.
