UK Government Debt Interest
What the government pays each month to service its existing debt, mostly to holders of UK government bonds (gilts).
£10.93bn
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Apr 1997 to Sep 2026
Source: ONS series NMFX (PUSF) · central government, net interest payable, not seasonally adjusted.
UK Government Debt Interest in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the UK, the government debt interest rose by £1.6bn over the year to Sep 2026, from £9.38bn in Sep 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from £1.02bn in Sep 2023 to £20.13bn in Jun 2022.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- ONS
- Series
- NMFX
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- £m
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Sep 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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