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The TaxPayers’ Alliance has declared War on Waste. This pocket-sized factbook is your guide to how much of your money councils, quangos and the Government spend.

You are now armed with facts about how much the public sector spends, where it spends it, how it has grown and where the waste is – as well as international and private sector comparisons. I hope you will consider joining the TPA to help us wage our War on Waste and get Britain out of this economic mess. Jonathan IsabyChief Executive, TaxPayers’ Alliance

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Public spending as a proportion of national income%GDP, 2013-14

SOURCE: HM TREASURY

56.3% 43.7%PUBLICPRIVATE

4SOURCE: OECD

UK vs OECD public spending%GDP

UK

OECD

5SOURCE: HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Public spending in selected countries%GDP

SINGAPORE 17.1HONG KONG 18.5CHINA 23.9INDIA 27.2SOUTH AFRICA 32.1SWITZERLAND 33.8AUSTRALIA 35.3RUSSIA 35.8BRAZIL 39.1 USA 41.6CANADA 41.9JAPAN 42.0GERMANY 45.4UK 48.5FRANCE 56.1

6SOURCE: HM TREASURY

Public spending breakdown£ BILLION, 2013-14

£53 bnOTHER

£40 bnDEFENCE

£137 bnHEALTH

£21 bnTRANSPORT

£97 bnEDUCATION

£220 bn

WELFARE &PENSIONS

£31 bn PUBLIC ORDER & SAFETY

£31 bnSOCIAL CARE

£23 bnHOUSING & ENVIRONMENT

£16 bnINDUSTRY,AGRICULTURE,EMPLOYMENT& TRAINING

DEBTINTEREST

£51bn

TOTAL

7SOURCES: ONS, HM TREASURY, HMRC

Public spending per person2013-14

TOTAL PUBLIC SPENDING £ 718,000,000,000 PER PERSON £11,272 PER ADULT £14,310 PER HOUSEHOLD £27,183 PER LIFETIME £911,308

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53.0%SCOTLAND

61.9%NORTH EAST

53.7%

YORKSHIREAND THE HUMBER

49.0%EAST MIDLANDS

45.1%EAST

34.9%LONDON

40.3%SOUTH EAST47.4%

SOUTH WEST

63.3%WALES

53.8%WEST MIDLANDS

55.9%NORTH WEST67.0%

NORTHERNIRELAND

SOURCE: CENTRE FOR ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS RESEARCH

UK regional public spending% REGIONAL GDP, 2010-11

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Public spending in home nationsPER PERSON, 2012-13

SOURCE: ONS

£8,529ENGLAND

£9,709WALES

£10,152SCOTLAND

£10,876

NORTHERNIRELAND

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“SOURCE: ONS

Private vs public sector pay

SOURCE: INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES

Average hourly wages of public sector workers are 24.3 per cent higher than those in the private sector. Most – but not all – of this difference can be explained by public sector workers typically having greater experience and more education.

After taking into account these differences, average hourly wages are estimated to be 8.3 per cent higher in the public sector than in the private sector.

It is difficult to make comparisons of the two sectors because of the differences in the types of job and characteristics of the employees.

Allowing for these differences as far as possible, in 2011, public sector employees were paid on average between 7.7 per cent and 8.7 per cent more than private sector employees. For consistency over time, these estimates assume employees of those banks reclassified to the public sector in 2008 were in the private sector throughout.

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Private vs public sickness leave% HOURS LOST TO SICKNESS

Public sector 2.6%Private sector 1.6%

= £100 MILLION

Potential saving: £1.7 bn

Cost of public sector sickness leave: £4.3 bn Cost if reduced to private sector levels: £2.6 bn

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Benefits and pensions spending2013-14

SOURCE: DWP

£163.6 bn

BENEFITS

£73.5 bn

PENSIONS

£90.1 bn

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Debt interest vs departmental spending2015-16

DEFENCE SPENDINGWe will spend almost half as much again on debt interest payments as we will on defence

DEBT INTERESTBy 2015-16, the interest

we will have to pay on the national debt will

rise to £60 billion£60 bn

£42.8 bn

15SOURCE: HM TREASURY

Deficit forecasts for 2014-15£ BILLION

16SOURCE: HM TREASURY

Spending on international aid since 2009-10 £ BILLION

17SOURCE: EUROPEAN COMMISSION

UK gross and net contributions2012

GROSS CONTRIBUTIONS

€16.2 bnRECEIPTS€7 bn

NET CONTRIBUTIONS

€9.2 bn

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Seven-figure CAP subsidies to UK landowners 2011

889 landowners received more than £250,000 Of those, 133 were given more than

£500,000 and

47 of those were given more than

£1 million in subsidy

SOURCE: BBC

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EU waste

£15 million on the EU Parliamentarium

£265,000 on cocktail parties in just one year

£17,500 on luxury gifts including Tiffany jewellery

£160,000 on a fitness centre for dogs that still hasn’t opened

20SOURCE: NHS LITIGATION AUTHORITY

NHS compensation payments£ MILLION

21SOURCE: NHS COMMISSIONING BOARD

Jazz thinking leadership courses

£5, 00

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NHS bosses sent doctors, nurses and managers on a “jazz thinking leadership masterclass”

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NHS Commissioning Board spending on iPads and iPhones

£371, 800

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NHS staff numbersFULL TIME EQUIVALENT, OCTOBER 2013

105,056 Doctors

152,177 Other clinical

310,924

Nursing &Midwifery

Non-clinical

477,841

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SOURCE: BBC

Cost of multiple formats of financial models used in the public sector £70 million

Cost of Tamiflu bought for the 2009 influenza pandemic written off as a result of poor record keeping by the NHSSOURCE: PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

£74 million

SOURCE: FAST STANDARDS ORGANISATION

Public sector waste

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Bexley Council spending on ‘compromise agreements’2010-2013

£1,000,609

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Potential outsourcing and procurement savings£ BILLION

SOURCES: INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS, HM TREASURY

27SOURCE: COTSWOLD LIBERAL DEMOCRATS

Motivational magicians

£18,980 hiring a ‘motivational

magician’

by Cotswold District Council

Now you see it.Now you don’t.

28SOURCE: TPA

Subsidies to trade unions2012-13

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