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Country and Regional Analysis (CRA)

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Background

Public expenditure is planned and controlled on a departmental basis, except where devolved responsibility lies with the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly. In several areas expenditure is planned on a UK or GB basis rather than by country. For example, the Department of Work and Pensions is responsible for the operation of the social security benefit system throughout Great Britain, and the defence budget covers the whole of the UK.

Departmental expenditure allocation is not normally on a regional basis. For example, social security payments are based on individual entitlements. However we can analyse the countries and regions of the UK for the benefit of whose citizens and enterprises public expenditure has been made. Country and regional spending data are published annually in Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses.

The PESA 2009 chapters 9 and 10 analyses are set within the overall framework of Total Expenditure on Services (see appendix E of PESA 2009). The analyses take known outturn spending data across all government departments and the devolved administrations, and therefore across the whole UK, and split this spending data into spending that can be identified as benefiting individual regions and that which cannot, because it benefits the UK as a whole (such as defence spending). The spending that can be identified as benefiting regions is termed ‘identifiable expenditure’. The analyses in PESA present statistical estimates for the allocation of this identifiable expenditure between the UK countries and the English regions.

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Data

Country and regional spending data are published annually in chapters 9 and 10 of Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses. The database containing all the underlying data used to compile tables 9.1 to 9.21 and 10.1 to 10.4 in chapters 9 and 10 of PESA 2009 is also available to download. Chapter 9 of PESA 2009 should be read in conjunction with using this database.

Interactive tables

The below tables allow the user to change the presentation of the published tables to fit their own requirements.

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Country and regional analysis guidance 2010

HM Treasury issued revised guidance to departments for the country and regional analysis (CRA) data collection exercise.

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