"Figure 4: The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) estimates that the debt interest payable on central government’s outstanding debt will be £87.2 billion for the current financial year","" "Forecast and estimated debt payables, £ billions, UK, April 2022 to March 2023","" "","" "Notes","1. This chart uses forecast data published in the [Economic and fiscal outlook – March 2022](https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-march-2022/) and the subsequent monthly profiles published on 23 May 2022." "Unit","" "","" "","OBR Forecast","ONS Estimate" "Apr 2022","6.5","6.5" "May 2022","5.1","7.8" "Jun 2022","19.7","19.4" "Jul 2022","3.9","0.0" "Aug 2022","4.9","0.0" "Sep 2022","6.4","0.0" "Oct 2022","5.7","0.0" "Nov 2022","9.0","0.0" "Dec 2022","10.0","0.0" "Jan 2023","8.6","0.0" "Feb 2023","4.3","0.0" "Mar 2023","3.1","0.0"