UK public spending, 2025-26

£1tn runs schools and education for 10.5 years

Schools and education costs £95bn a year — £260m a day, or £3,010 every second.

Your £1tn is 1052.6% of the annual bill

Source: OBR: Education day-to-day (RDEL) budget 2025-26, £95bn. Assumes the money goes out evenly through the year.

£1tn on the clock

The same £1tn elsewhere

Budget	Lasts
The whole UK governmentruns	38 weeks
The NHSruns	4.9 years
The state pensionpays	6.9 years
Social protection (all benefits and pensions)pays	2.6 years
Interest on the national debtcovers	10.2 years
Defence (day-to-day)runs	25.6 years
The deficitplugs	7.8 years
HMRC's takematches	55 weeks
The monarchy (Sovereign Grant)runs	7570.0 years