UK public spending, 2025-26

£1m runs the whole UK government for 23 seconds

The whole UK government costs £1.36tn a year — £3.72bn a day, or £43,096 every second.

Your £1m is 0.00007% of the annual bill

Source: ONS Public sector finances, 2025-26 total managed expenditure (~£1.36tn). Assumes the money goes out evenly through the year.

£1m on the clock

The same £1m elsewhere

Budget	Lasts
The NHSruns	2 min 35 sec
The state pensionpays	3 min 37 sec
Social protection (all benefits and pensions)pays	83 seconds
Interest on the national debtcovers	5 min 23 sec
Schools and educationruns	5 min 32 sec
Defence (day-to-day)runs	13 min 29 sec
The deficitplugs	4 min 7 sec
HMRC's takematches	34 seconds
The monarchy (Sovereign Grant)runs	2 days 18 hr