Public sector debt interest, real terms: record highs and lows
The extremes of public sector debt interest, real terms as published by HM Treasury, across the 24 periods held here (Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026). Each record is a published figure, not a computed one, and the scope is this series — not “ever”.
Highest published
£147.7bnYear ending March 2023
Lowest published
£51.4bnYear ending March 2021
The full series
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A record is the extreme of the periods this site holds for the current series, at each period’s newest published release. Earlier series measured under different methods are not compared against it. Money is in cash terms: a record set years ago stands against the money of its own year.