"Figure 7: Central government day-to-day spending in the financial year-to-July 2021 was £28.6 billion (or 8.4%) lower than in the same period last year","" "Central government current expenditure, UK, in the financial year-to-July 2021 compared with the financial year ending March 2021","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","Cumulative current expenditure - April 2020 to March 2021","Cumulative current expenditure - April 2021 to July 2021","Monthly current expenditure - April 2020 to March 2021","Monthly current expenditure - April 2021 to July 2021" "Apr","99.4","84.0","99.4","84.0" "May","185.7","159.7","86.2","75.7" "Jun","261.7","236.9","76.0","77.2" "Jul","338.6","310.0","76.9","73.1" "Aug","412.1","","73.5","" "Sep","485.7","","73.6","" "Oct","555.5","","69.8","" "Nov","631.5","","76.0","" "Dec","709.1","","77.6","" "Jan","784.9","","75.8","" "Feb","857.1","","72.2","" "Mar","942.7","","85.7",""