"Figure 3: Borrowing in the current financial year-to-date is substantially higher than in the same period last year ","" "Public sector net borrowing excluding public sector banks, UK, the current financial year-to-date (April to July 2020) compared with the financial year ending March 2020 (April 2019 to March 2020)","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","Cumulative borrowing - April 2019 to March 2020","Cumulative borrowing - April to July 2020","Monthly borrowing - April 2019 to March 2020","Monthly borrowing - April to July 2020" "Apr","11.0","48.7","11.0","48.7" "May","16.6","94.3","5.6","45.6" "Jun","23.7","123.8","7.1","29.5" "Jul","22.1","150.5","-1.6","26.7" "Aug","27.2","","5.1","" "Sep","34.8","","7.6","" "Oct","46.3","","11.5","" "Nov","51.8","","5.5","" "Dec","57.3","","5.5","" "Jan","48.1","","-9.2","" "Feb","49.7","","1.6","" "Mar","56.6","","7.0",""