Budget
01A plan or settlement for a stated boundary and period.
Not legal authority, payment or actual spend.
UK public funding · reviewed 10 July 2026
Follow the authority, not an imaginary labelled pound.
See how pooled revenue becomes health and education authority, allocations, provider routes and audited outturn across all four UK nations. Every edge says what the official source proves—and where the trail stops.
- official sources
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- institutions and classes
- 36
- mapped programmes
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- visible gaps
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The starting truth
Most tax joins a pool before a service gets a budget.
Income tax, VAT, corporation tax and most other central receipts enter the Consolidated Fund. Parliament authorises limits; HM Treasury controls them; departments and devolved governments make later choices. Official accounts do not let us trace your payment to a particular school, hospital or university.
National Insurance has a narrow statutory NHS allocation, but even that does not create a taxpayer-to-hospital trail. Barnett consequentials change a devolved government's overall block grant; they are not ring-fenced copies of English spending.
One pound sign, six meanings
Read the state before reading the amount.
Estimate
02A request to Parliament for resource, capital and cash limits.
Not enacted authority before the relevant Supply law passes.
Authorisation
03The legal permission and upper limit to use public resources.
Not proof that the full amount was allocated or used.
Allocation
04A decision assigning money to a body, place, programme or formula.
Not proof of cash receipt, delivery or final cost.
Payment
05A cash transfer proved by a transaction or settlement record.
Not the same as accrued expense, performance or outcome.
Outturn
06What an official account or final return reports after the period.
Only comparable within the stated accounting boundary.
Period check: FY 2026-27 runs from April to March. AY 2026/27 follows a teaching cycle. TaxSorted does not convert or add them without an official bridge.
Published money snapshots
Six boundaries. No grand total.
These records show how different official amounts are described. They are not a league table, are not like-for-like, and must not be added together.
FY 2026-27authorised
NHS England 2026-27 total resource-use limit
£215,352,000,000
DHSC statutory total revenue resource-use limit for NHS England
accrual basis · not stated · nominal prices
A statutory use limit is not cash or provider income and is not comparable with the narrower Spending Review NHS England RDEL line.
FY 2026-27authorised
England public-health grant 2026-27
£4,404,000,000
Ring-fenced section 31 public-health grant total for eligible English local authorities
not stated basis · gross · nominal prices
The national grant total does not reveal child-only spending, each authority's outturn or all local public-health resources.
FY 2026-27plan
Core schools 2026-27 funding plan
£67,000,000,000
Spending Review 2025 core schools funding contained within DfE RDEL
accrual basis · not stated · nominal prices
This contained plan is not every school's final budget and must not be added again to DfE RDEL.
FY 2026-27authorised
Scotland Education and Skills portfolio total
£3,556,000,000
Scottish Budget Education and Skills portfolio total
not stated basis · not stated · nominal prices
This portfolio boundary is not directly comparable with DfE RDEL or Northern Ireland's Department of Education RDEL.
FY 2026-27authorised
Wales Health and Social Care fiscal resource
£12,602,651,000
Welsh Final Budget Health and Social Care MEG fiscal resource
not stated basis · not stated · nominal prices
The MEG includes more than NHS services and is not directly comparable with other nations' differently bounded health figures.
FY 2026-27plan
Northern Ireland Department of Education resource DEL draft
£3,244,600,000
Northern Ireland Draft Budget Department of Education RDEL
not stated basis · not stated · nominal prices
This remained a draft plan and excludes the separate Department for the Economy tertiary boundary.
Comparison boundary: nation, service scope, status and accounting basis differ. The API carries explicit non-comparability links where the source supports them.
Query every FY 2026-27 record ↗The fiscal pipeline
Seven gates from receipt to audit.
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Revenue enters public funds
Most tax and other central receipts enter the Consolidated Fund. That pooled record does not identify a particular service or provider recipient.
- 02
Government proposes a plan
Budgets and Spending Reviews set intended boundaries. They do not themselves prove legal authority, payment or delivery.
- 03
Parliament authorises Supply
Estimates ask for limits. The applicable Supply and Appropriation law creates authority; an Estimate alone does not.
- 04
Treasuries control the boundary
HM Treasury controls UK departmental limits. Devolved governments receive block grants and combine them with their own revenue before making portfolio choices.
- 05
Funders allocate or commission
Departments, NHS bodies, councils and funding councils use grants, formulae, loans, pooled budgets and contracts. Each route has different conditions.
- 06
Providers deliver services
Public, charitable, social-enterprise and verified private providers may receive money. An allocation is still not proof of a payment or outcome.
- 07
Accounts and scrutiny look back
Audited accounts and official returns report outturn after the period. Auditors and committees scrutinise; they do not become the service manager.
England, one level deeper
Health and education branch into different authorities and providers.
Health lane
Budget, commission, provide.
A commissioner's job, a payment administrator's job and a provider's job are not interchangeable.
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DHSC holds the departmental boundary and gives NHS England financial directions.
- 2
NHS England allocates to 36 integrated care boards and retains or delegates specified commissioning.
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ICBs and other commissioners select and contract with NHS, primary-care, charitable, social-enterprise and independent providers.
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Local authorities receive a separate ring-fenced public-health grant and can pool money with ICBs under section 75 arrangements.
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Accounts and audit report what happened after the period within their own consolidation boundaries.
Education lane
Formula, grant, loan, research.
School budgets, high-needs top-ups, student loans and research awards are different instruments.
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Early years DfE funds local authorities, which must pass through the required share to eligible providers.
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Schools and high needs the Dedicated Schools Grant splits into blocks; maintained schools, academies, places and needs-led top-ups follow distinct routes.
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Further education and skills DfE, DWP, devolved authorities, employers and the apprenticeship service each hold a bounded role.
- 4
Higher education OfS funding and SLC loan delivery stay separate from provider fees and borrower repayments.
- 5
Research DSIT funds UKRI; its councils use formulae, grants, fellowships, contracts or loans according to the scheme.
A price rule is not a budget
The NHS Payment Scheme sets payment rules. It is not itself an allocation or proof of payment.
A formula table may be notional
A school NFF table does not automatically equal a maintained school or academy's final budget.
A loan has several values
Cash outlay, face value, carrying value, repayment and forecast subsidy must remain separate.
Devolution is part of the answer
Four nations, four systems—not one England diagram recoloured.
England
Institutions ↗- Health
- DHSC → NHS England → 36 integrated care boards and other commissioners → providers; public-health grants also flow to local authorities.
- Education
- DfE → councils, academy trusts and providers; OfS and SLC cover higher education and student finance; DSIT → UKRI covers research.
Future NHS structural reform stays labelled as proposed until official evidence supports an operative change.
Scotland
Institutions ↗- Health
- The Scottish budget funds territorial and national NHS boards, with health and social-care integration through local statutory arrangements.
- Education
- Councils fund schools; the Scottish Funding Council funds colleges and universities; SAAS delivers student support.
Barnett changes are not ring-fenced Scottish health or education allocations.
Wales
Institutions ↗- Health
- The Welsh budget funds local health boards, NHS trusts and special health authorities; the joint committee commissions specified national services.
- Education
- Councils set school formulas from a wider settlement; Medr covers tertiary education, apprenticeships and research.
A proposed supplementary budget is not treated as authorised before its approval stage.
Northern Ireland
Institutions ↗- Health
- The Department of Health and its planning group fund and commission through health and social-care trusts, primary care and other providers.
- Education
- The Education Authority funds grant-aided schools; the Economy Department funds FE and HE institutions and sets student-support policy.
Draft budget proposals and a Vote on Account stay distinct while no verified final full multi-year budget is available.
Next-generation lens
Find the programmes. Do not invent the total.
Each programme has a plain aggregate population scope and machine-readable beneficiary tags. They help builders find early-years, school-age, high-needs, apprentice, student, workforce-training and research programmes without creating records about individual people.
Tags overlap. One programme can cover several groups and one person can fit several tags. TaxSorted does not add tagged amounts into a made-up “next-generation budget”.
Queryable beneficiary tags
adult learners · 1all ages · 5alternative provision · 1apprentices · 2carers · 1children and young people · 6disabled people · 1disadvantaged children · 1disadvantaged pupils · 1early years · 6further education · 1future workforce · 5health inequalities · 1health workforce · 4higher education · 2innovation · 1lifelong learning · 2older people · 5postgraduate research · 1prevention · 2researchers · 1school age · 6send · 3sixteen to nineteen · 1skills · 3students · 5transition to adulthood · 1workforce pipeline · 1working age adults · 6working families · 1young adults · 2young people · 6
NHS services in England
Arrange and provide nationally and locally commissioned NHS services within current statutory responsibilities.
Population scope: All people eligible for NHS services; component services may target defined cohorts.
England · transitional
Local public-health services in England
Fund statutory and prescribed local public-health functions through a ring-fenced grant.
Population scope: Local populations, including children and adults; service mix varies within grant conditions.
England · active
Better Care Fund in England
Support locally planned integration of health, social care and housing-related support.
Population scope: Adults and older people are central, but local plans and prevention can reach wider groups.
England · active
Core schools funding in England
Fund mainstream school provision through national and local formula routes and academy grants.
Population scope: Pupils in state-funded primary and secondary education.
England · active
Funded early education and childcare entitlements
Fund eligible early-years entitlements through local-authority formulae and provider pass-through rules.
Population scope: Eligible children before compulsory school age and their families.
England · active
High-needs and alternative-provision funding
Support special educational needs and disabilities, alternative provision, places and needs-led top-ups.
Population scope: Children and young people aged 0 to 25 within the published high-needs scope.
England · active
Responsibility without a dossier
Map the office, board and public door—not private lives.
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Formal offices
Responsibility, appointment and constraints belong to the office. The current holder stays on a dated official-source link; names are not copied into the bulk graph.
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Boards, panels and committees
The map records collective remit, powers, limits, membership source and meetings. Collective authority is not copied to each member.
9
Functional public contacts
Shared mailboxes, switchboards, forms, FOI and complaints routes only. No inferred emails, personal mobiles, home addresses or junior-staff directory.
Official evidence
The source travels with the claim.
A source says what it supports and what it does not prove. Search results and commentary can help discovery, but they do not become the authority for a record.
- Supply Estimates: a guidance manual 2026 ↗HM Treasury
- Block Grant Transparency: October 2025 ↗HM Treasury
- 2026 to 2027 financial directions to NHS England ↗Department of Health and Social Care
- Allocation of resources 2026/27 to 2028/29 ↗NHS England
- DfE consolidated annual report and accounts 2024 to 2025 ↗Department for Education
- Dedicated schools grant: 2026 to 2027 ↗Department for Education
- Scottish Budget 2026 to 2027 ↗Scottish Government
- Welsh Government Final Budget 2026 to 2027 ↗Welsh Government
- Northern Ireland Draft Budget 2026-2029/30 ↗Department of Finance Northern Ireland
Caveats are data
Unknown is better than invented.
Budget figures use different scopes and accounting boundaries. Read each record's status, containment and traceability warning before comparing or adding amounts.
An ordinary tax pound cannot be traced to one service
Most central receipts enter the Consolidated Fund before Parliament, Treasury and departments make later spending decisions.
The API can show authority and allocations, but must not create a taxpayer-to-school or taxpayer-to-hospital edge.
bounded by design
Four-nation health and education totals are not directly comparable
Official budgets use different service boundaries, accounting presentations, stages and institutional structures.
Applications must show each boundary and must not rank nations from these headline figures as if they measured the same thing.
open
No clean Wales education-only total in the reviewed budget source
School funding sits partly inside local-government funding while tertiary and other routes use separate budget lines and bodies.
The coverage pass maps the route but does not publish a fabricated all-education total for Wales.
open
Northern Ireland full-year figures remained draft at review
The reviewed multi-year budget source proposed departmental RDEL and CDEL values, while interim authority followed a separate process.
Draft allocations stay plans and must be replaced or effective-dated when a final budget is approved.
time sensitive
NHS England structural reform is not yet a completed transfer
The Health Bill and transition material describe proposed abolition and later function changes, but current legal bodies and duties continue until the required law and commencement.
A future-state diagram must not overwrite current responsibility, allocations or accountability.
time sensitive
Current holders and committee members stay at official source links
This first bulk corpus maps formal offices, board structures and roster doors without copying a changing people directory or personal biographies.
Readers can verify current holders at dated official pages; a future named-person layer needs a separate purpose, privacy, accuracy and correction review.
bounded by design
- No claim that a particular taxpayer's payment funded a particular service unless legislation establishes that link.
- No complete provider-level payment ledger, procurement join, school directory, NHS trust directory or award archive in this coverage-first release.
- No bulk named-person roster, inferred biography, private contact, home address, staff dossier or applicant information.
Use and redistribute
The map is shaped for people and software.
Query one collection, follow stable IDs and source IDs, or mirror a complete JSON, CSV or NDJSON collection. Read each source's reuse terms; TaxSorted's curation licence does not relicense every upstream document.
https://api.taxsorted.io/v1/public-funding/uk
Start and release state ↗
Metadata, counts, route discovery and the publication flag.
Manifest ↗
Version, checksum, counts, ID policy and correction route.
Fiscal pipeline ↗
Collection, authority, allocation, delivery, accounts and audit.
Programmes by beneficiary ↗
Aggregate purpose tags, never people or recipient records.
Allocations by year ↗
Amounts with status, boundary, accounting basis and traceability warning.
Data dictionary ↗
Fields, filters, references, aliases and comparison rules.
JSON Schema ↗
The structural record contract for validation.
Export catalogue ↗
Complete JSON, CSV and NDJSON collection metadata.
OpenAPI 3.1 ↗
The wider service contract and route descriptions.
Check the release state
curl -fsS 'https://api.taxsorted.io/v1/public-funding/uk' | jq '{version: .meta.version, public: .manifest.publicDataEnabled, counts}'When record bodies are open
Keep stable IDs, source IDs, dates, attribution and limitations with reused copies. Corpus version 2026-07-10.1.