Budget 2010: the 10 key datasets you need

When Alistair Darling makes his third (and possibly last) budget speech tomorrow, he will base his announcements on a set of financial assumptions. These are the numbers behind most of those assumptions. We have rifled through the Office for National Statistics key economic and social datasets - used by the Treasury as the basis for their predicitons of what will happen next - to present you with the ten key numbers for judging the economic state of the nation. Here's what you have: 1) The deficit what's left each month when government spending is taken away from government receipts - the running overdraft 2) Government spending, per month 3) Unemployment numbers 4) Benefits spending 5) Inflation Using the government's preferred measure of CPI 6) Monthly borrowing Different to the deficit - this is the amount the government borrwos from the Gilt markets each month 7) Net debt Given as a % of GDP, this is the government's total debt - its mortgage 8) Tax receipts Total income for the government from taxes on people and businesses 9) Income tax receipts From individuals 10) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Adjusted for inflaiton, this is the output of Britain Tomorrow, Alistair Darling will make a number of predictions about what will happen to most of these datasets. They may or may not happen like that - but for now, these figures give you everything you need. Let us know what you can do with the data - and if you'd like to see anything else. Download the data • DATA: download the full datasheet World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter Data summary