"Figure 2: Cumulative borrowing remains lower than the same period last year","" "Cumulative financial year (April 2018 to March 2019) borrowing, compared with the previous financial year (April 2017 to March 2018), UK","" "","" "Notes","1. OBR forecast for public sector net borrowing excluding public sector banks from March 2019 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO)." "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","Cumulative full financial year (April 2017 - March 2018)","Cumulative full financial year (April 2018 to March 2019)","Monthly borrowing - previous year","Monthly borrowing - current year","OBR full financial year 2018 to 2019 borrowing forecast" "Apr","9.1","5.8","9.1","5.8","" "May","16.2","9.9","7.1","4.0","" "Jun","22.5","13.0","6.3","3.2","" "Jul","21.7","9.3","-0.8","-3.8","" "Aug","26.1","14.9","4.4","5.6","" "Sep","31.2","17.8","5.0","2.9","" "Oct","38.5","26.1","7.4","8.3","" "Nov","46.6","33.5","8.0","7.5","" "Dec","49.2","37.2","2.6","3.6","" "Jan","39.8","22.6","-9.4","-14.6","" "Feb","41.0","23.0","1.2","0.4","" "Mar","41.8","24.7","0.8","1.7"," 22.8"