Get Total Managed Expenditure

Downloads (and caches) the OBR Public Finances Databank and returns annual Total Managed Expenditure (TME) in £ billion. TME is the broadest measure of UK government spending.

Usage

get_expenditure(refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

refresh

Logical. If TRUE, re-download even if a cached copy exists. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

An obr_tbl with the standard v0.4.0 schema. series is "TME", metric_type is "level", unit is "gbp_bn". See get_public_finances() for column definitions.

See also

Other public finances: get_psnb(), get_psnd(), get_public_finances(), get_receipts()

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(obr.cache_dir = tempdir())
tme <- get_expenditure()
#> ℹ Downloading public_finances_databank.xlsx from OBR...
#> ✔ Saved to cache.
tail(tme)
#> # obr_tbl: 6 rows x 6 cols
#> # Source:       OBR Public Finances Databank
#> # URL:          https://obr.uk/download/public-finances-databank/
#> # Retrieved:    2026-05-07 21:08:38 UTC
#> # File MD5:     77a07b6641ca
#> # Package:      obr 0.5.0
#> 
#>     period period_type series metric_type     value   unit
#> 75 2020-21 fiscal_year    TME       level 1164.5793 gbp_bn
#> 76 2021-22 fiscal_year    TME       level 1011.4941 gbp_bn
#> 77 2022-23 fiscal_year    TME       level  990.4851 gbp_bn
#> 78 2023-24 fiscal_year    TME       level 1027.3872 gbp_bn
#> 79 2024-25 fiscal_year    TME       level 1063.9669 gbp_bn
#> 80 2025-26 fiscal_year    TME       level 1106.0997 gbp_bn
options(op)
# }