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Fiscal Policy Update: UK Government Spending 2015-16

Geoff Riley

24th March 2016

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Here are two useful charts summarising the breakdown of UK government spending for the 2015-16 fiscal year and the change in public expenditure since 2010.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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