Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 2025-26
Published on:An overview of FCDO’s spending and performance, including financial management, productivity, key risks and resilience challenges.
An overview of FCDO’s spending and performance, including financial management, productivity, key risks and resilience challenges.
An overview of the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government in 2025-26, covering spending, performance, housing and devolution.
DWP delivers pensions and benefits to 23 million people across Great Britain, making it the government’s largest-spending department.
This overview examines the DfT’s 2025-26 financial performance, including £41.9 billion of spending and the factors driving budget variances.
This report summarises the Home Office’s activities, expenditure, governance, risks and performance during 2025-26.
This report examines key issues affecting the Ministry of Defence, including defence funding, delivery and long-term strategic planning.
In 2024-25 DHSC spent £219.2 billion. Spending is primarily driven by staff costs and clinical supplies and services.
The Department for Business and Trade is a department for economic growth. In 2024-25, DBT spent a total of £2.15 billion (including financing) in net expenditure.
Our overview of DSIT for 2024-25 looks at the department’s priorities, and where it spent £14.2 billion last year.
In 2024-25, the MoD spent £52.7 billion on its running costs. This includes day-to-day resources such as staff costs, maintaining military equipment, and management of the Defence estate.
Defra spent £5.52 billion in 2024-25, the majority of which was spent through its arm’s-length bodies and executive agencies.
In 2024-25, FCDO spent a total of £12.5 billion, an increase of 3% on the previous year.
Our overview of the Ministry of Justice for 2024-25 looks at the Ministry’s priorities, and where it spent £14.5 billion last year.
DWP’s total expenditure in 2024-25 was £298 billion, the largest of any government department.
In 2024-25, MHCLG reported net operating expenditure of £46.2 billion. Our overview of MHCLG for 2024-25 shows where that money was spent.
DESNZ spent £6.7 billion in 2024-25 on a range of activities and arm’s-length bodies – an increase of £0.2 billion from 2023-24.
In 2024-25 HMRC collected £875.9 billion in tax revenue, and spent £6.6 billion. Read our overview of HMRC.
In 2024-25, the Department for Transport’s net spend was £41.3 billion. Our overview provides insight on where this money was spent.
We summarise the key information and insights from our examinations of DfE and from their annual report and accounts.
In 2024/25, the Treasury spent £2,586 million. Our report reviews how this money was spent, as well as risks, resilience and productivity.