# United Kingdom LG: Total current expenditure: £m CPNSA ()

United Kingdom LG: Total current expenditure: £m CPNSA () was up 6.0% year on year in Q3 2026, compared with 5.5% in Q2 2026.
The level stood at 67,552 £m.
That is the highest reading since Q1 2025.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −13.6% (Q2 2021) to 32.3% (Q2 2020), averaging 4.4%.

- Source agency: UK Office for National Statistics
- Makrognosis code: `UK.GOVEXP.Q.NSA.ITEM-MSE5.SECTOR-LG`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: £m
- Coverage: 1997-04-01 to 2026-07-01 (118 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/united-kingdom/lg-total-current-expenditure-m-cpnsa-not-seasonally-adjusted-quarterly

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q3 2026 | 67,552 £m | 6.0 |
| Q2 2026 | 67,017 £m | 5.5 |
| Q1 2026 | 65,699 £m | 4.8 |
| Q4 2025 | 64,422 £m | 5.5 |
| Q3 2025 | 63,736 £m | 5.3 |
| Q2 2025 | 63,544 £m | 5.7 |
| Q1 2025 | 62,710 £m | 7.5 |
| Q4 2024 | 61,083 £m | 7.2 |
| Q3 2024 | 60,543 £m | 7.3 |
| Q2 2024 | 60,095 £m | 7.0 |
| Q1 2024 | 58,349 £m | 7.6 |
| Q4 2023 | 56,980 £m | 7.6 |
| Q3 2023 | 56,428 £m | 7.6 |
| Q2 2023 | 56,144 £m | 7.1 |
| Q1 2023 | 54,214 £m | 8.2 |
| Q4 2022 | 52,960 £m | 7.2 |
| Q3 2022 | 52,442 £m | 7.5 |
| Q2 2022 | 52,414 £m | 4.0 |
| Q1 2022 | 50,126 £m | −4.8 |
| Q4 2021 | 49,413 £m | −0.3 |
| Q3 2021 | 48,780 £m | 4.9 |
| Q2 2021 | 50,417 £m | −13.6 |
| Q1 2021 | 52,658 £m | 16.9 |
| Q4 2020 | 49,563 £m | 10.9 |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.GOVEXP.Q.NSA.ITEM-MSE5.SECTOR-LG"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.GOVEXP.Q.NSA.ITEM-MSE5.SECTOR-LG",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```